Each year, Qualcomm introduces a new upscaling technology that’s marketed as a game-changing feature, with the company now rumored to bring AI Frame Fusion exclusively to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. While we should be excited for what the feature brings to the table, we’ve also realized that without any meaningful use cases, with the most important one being increased gaming performance, the feature will practically be useless. Standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 to miss out on AI Frame Fusion due to the lack of Matrix ALU blocks Similar to how the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 […]

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Another company that has thrown in the towel during the DRAM shortage is Qualcomm, with the latest report stating that the chipset manufacturer tried to hold off for as long as it could, but the company eventually caved in. Various unnamed products are expected to become pricier, with those likely being the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. Increased 2nm wafer costs, low smartphone demand, causing Qualcomm to bring a price hike An update from Bloomberg mentions that Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday, informing them that the double-digit price hike would […]

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Qualcomm will introduce its first 2nm chipsets later this year, but don’t expect these SoCs to share the same capabilities just because they utilize the same lithography. In fact, a tipster shares some specification differences between the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 to show the ‘Pro’ version will only be found in the ‘top of the line’ flagships arriving next year. Despite sporting the same CPU cluster, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro boasts a better GPU, increased graphics memory, and more We’ve mentioned before that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro […]

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Samsung has just made on-device AI substantially more practical by unveiling the next-gen UFS 5.0 storage solution, with read and write speeds that are over twice as fast as those of the previous UFS 4.1 standard. Samsung's UFS 5.0 storage solution "delivers a sequential read speed of up to 10.8 GB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 9.5 GB/s" According to Samsung, its UFS 5.0 storage solution "integrates the latest embedded memory interface standard from JEDEC, achieving unparalleled performance levels with the industry’s highest bandwidth of up to 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s)." The South Korean tech giant […]

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A ton of attention is being focused on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, but only a modicum of it is being diverted to the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. After a torrent of leaks surrounding Qualcomm’s top-end SoC, some fresh information has leaked involving the company’s other 2nm chipset, with details revealing that it’ll share a similarity with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. However, don’t count on this as positive news, because Android phone makers will still be forced to pay a hefty premium for the silicon. Qualcomm to maintain the same package size for Snapdragon […]

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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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