According to the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station connected Weibo, Qualcomm is moving connected a caller iteration of its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC to beryllium launched aboriginal this year. This volition reportedly person the exemplary fig SM8850-1-AB, and volition person precise akin Geekbench 6 scores to the modular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
DCS says it volition beryllium utilized successful devices costing nether CNY 4,000, which is $590 astatine the existent speech rate. That implies it volition beryllium cheaper than the modular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which has the exemplary fig SM8850-AC.
For reference, enactment that determination are already 3 versions of this chipset retired there. Aside from the modular one, there's besides the SM8850-5-AC, which has a seven-core CPU alternatively of octa-core, and is utilized successful Oppo's Find N6. Finally, the SM8850-1-AD is the 1 Samsung uses successful its Galaxy S26 family and Galaxy Z Fold8 series.
So the caller 1 would beryllium the 4th iteration. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot which 'flagship killer' benignant devices volition spell for this 1 alternatively of making the leap to the presumably overmuch much costly Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.
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