This week, Qualcomm unveiled its next-gen mobile system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.

We live in a world where tech refreshes every year. That isn’t just true for smartphones like the iPhone 17 or the Samsung Galaxy S26 , but the technology inside of them as well. For Android fans, that means a new Snapdragon chipset that will power most flagship-level phones released over the next year.

For starters, the chip has already been rebranded once. Its original name was the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, so that it followed in the footsteps of the Snapdragon 8 Elite that went into flagship phones like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra . However, just like Microsoft when it skipped Windows 9 and Apple when it went from iOS 18 to iOS 26 , Qualcomm decided to sk

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