The 8 Elite comes with a new Oryon CPU. | Image: Qualcomm
Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faster performance and — lest we forget about AI — offers on-device support for multi-modal intelligence.
The Oryon CPU inside the 8 Elite hasn’t been borrowed directly from the laptop chips; Qua...
