Qualcomm is looking to fight fire with fire. Just a few weeks after Apple unveiled the new A19 chips that power its iPhone 17 models, Qualcomm today (September 24) showed off the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 system-on-chip that will power many of the leading Android phones for the next year. And like its chief rival from Apple, this silicon promises a big performance boost.
The 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 features an 8-core CPU, along with an upgraded GPU and a neural processing unit that Qualcomm says has…








