Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with Oryon CPU, World's Fastest Mobile Processor Enhancing AI

Oct 21, 2024, 08:33 PM

Qualcomm has unveiled its new flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, featuring the custom-built Oryon CPU, originally developed for laptops and now adapted for smartphones. Claimed to be the world's fastest mobile CPU, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is built on a 3nm process and offers significant performance and efficiency improvements, including a 45% CPU boost over the previous generation. The chipset features custom-designed cores in the CPU, GPU, and NPU, dramatically enhancing on-device generative AI capabilities and ensuring enhanced privacy and multimodal support. Qualcomm highlights that the processor brings laptop-level capabilities to smartphones, enabling advanced AI tasks such as image generation and text processing with improved speed and efficiency. The Snapdragon 8 Elite also supports Unreal Engine 5 graphics, showcasing its advanced graphical performance. Leading smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, and ASUS, are set to roll out devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, with the Xiaomi 15 series scheduled to be the first to launch in late October and the ASUS ROG Phone 9 to follow in November.