Qualcomm's top-of-the-line mobile chip is getting a new name. But the newly unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite offers more than just surface changes as it's built on a 3-nanometer process, features a new CPU and promises plenty of neural processing to handle new on-device AI features.

Qualcomm has unveiled its latest and greatest smartphone chipset for a new generation of phones, in the form of the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is using the in-house Oryon CPU cores—now on mobile after debuting with the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus —alongside the next step in its Adreno 830 GPU for battery ray tracing on a TSMC 3nm processor.