In an era of price gouging and intentional sabotage of one's competitors, as Apple appears to be doing right now, Qualcomm is seemingly taking the rare moral high ground by eschewing the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip just to push OEMs towards its pricey 'Pro' counterpart. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip appears good enough for most OEMs, muddying the demand outlook for its Pro variant The Weibo-based tipster, Digital Chat Station, has just penned an interesting post, highlighting the minimized disparity between the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip and its Pro counterpart (machine translated): […]

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Qualcomm is rumored to be preparing not one, but two 2nm chipsets, with both SoCs having a myriad of differences between them to help manufacturers decide between using the top-end one for their most premium devices and reserving the standard version for slightly less expensive options. According to the newest rumor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 might share the same CPU cluster, but a tipster highlights a boatload of differences between the two silicones, starting with the GPU. The higher-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is set to tower over the […]

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