The first phones using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC have started to come out last month, following the chipset’s official announcement, and yet if you have, for some reason, been wondering what to expect from its successor, today a few details have been outed.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 is probably going to be unveiled in September 2026. It will allegedly be made on a 2nm process by TSMC, and this will enable some great gains in terms of power consumption and performance compared to its predecessor.
The 8 Elite Gen 6 is said to support LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, and might be even more expensive than the 8 Elite Gen 5, which will inevitably make phones using it more expensive than the current batch of flagships that are just launching. Whether the improvements in performance and efficiency will be enough to justify that, you’ll have to decide for yourself when the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 devices arrive on the market around this time next year.
