The push for smarter AI extends beyond phones, laptops and other personal computing devices. Cars are getting smarter, too, and the latest entry into Qualcomm's Digital Chasis line of chips for connected cars and smart cars looks to speed up that process.

Qualcomm has a new chip for flagship phones, and the best part is that it uses an improved version of the Oryon CPU architecture that the Snapdragon X Elite chips brought to Windows PCs earlier this year.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite offers better CPU performance thanks to the second-gen Oryon CPU, but the Dimensity 9400 has a slight edge in GPU performance.

Qualcomm just launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip for smartphones today, but the second-generation Oryon CPU core within could hint at a possible new Snapdragon X Elite chip.

Now, in terms of AI support, the Snapdragon 8 Elite features a new Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) which will allow the device to run AI-related tasks 45% faster. The company is also bringing on-device multimodal Gen AI support allowing the chipset to run up to 70 tokens of Small Language Models.

The release of the Snapdragon 8 Elite will mark the most significant upgrade in Qualcomm's mobile chips since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The Elite branding and Oryon CPU are migrating down from Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite for laptops.

Qualcomm launches its next-generation Oryon CPU for smartphones, with some amazingly aggressive performance claims.

Qualcomm today unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform, which features a next-generation custom Qualcomm-designed Oryon CPU instead of

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is built to lengthen battery life and boost performance on upcoming premium Android phones.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform features custom-designed cores in the CPU, GPU, and NPU to dramatically improve speed, efficiency, and AI for next-generation flagship smartphones.

I interviewed several Qualcomm product managers to figure out why efficiency cores aren't needed to make CPUs more efficient.