Snapdragon Summit 2024 — the chipmaker’s annual occasion to unveil its flagship smartphone processor — started on Monday with the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This high-end smartphone chipset is confirmed to reach on smartphones from a number of manufacturers, together with Asus, iQOO, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Vivo, and Xiaomi. South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung has additionally revealed that its upcoming handsets will probably be geared up with the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was unveiled by Qualcomm final yr.
Samsung Confirms Upcoming Galaxy Smartphones Will Function Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip
On the ongoing Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Samsung Cellular President TM Roh acknowledged that upcoming Galaxy handsets can be geared up with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. On condition that Samsung’s Galaxy S sequence and Z sequence fashions are the corporate’s most high-end smartphones, we are able to assume that the Galaxy S25 sequence would be the first telephones from Samsung to reach with the brand new processor.
“Qualcomm will assist us transfer additional with Qualcomm’s expertise in clever computing, and dedication to advancing cellular AI, will probably be an enormous a part of future Galaxy AI experiences,” Roh stated on the occasion.
He didn’t reveal which smartphones will probably be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, so it’s unclear whether or not all of the successors to the Galaxy S24 sequence will function the newly unveiled processor.
Whereas Samsung geared up all three fashions within the Galaxy S23 sequence with a customized Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chip, solely the Extremely mannequin within the Galaxy S24 sequence encompasses a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset whereas the usual and Plus fashions had an Exynos 2400 processor in most markets.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip may additionally energy the successors to the Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 smartphones, however these fashions aren’t anticipated to reach till the second half of 2025. Then again, the Galaxy S25 sequence of smartphones is predicted to reach in early 2025, together with Samsung’s Android 15-based One UI 7 software program replace.
