The tech industry is accelerating its AI race, and that includes the phones in your pocket. Qualcomm has new chips that will power the most premium upcoming Android devices, some of which are coming out now.

At Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm revealed its next phone chips with upgrades to improve AI features. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 is the newest best-of-the-best chip, and slightly below that is the similarly named (but not extreme) Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, which supersedes last year’s top-end Qualcomm mobile silicon. Both are built on a 2nm process node for faster processing and better efficiency.

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