Tech article
These 3 Major Upgrades Could Be Heading to Your Next Flagship Android Phone - CNET
Publisher description: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip will be in the top phones of 2026 and 2027. Here's what it can do.
NewsAPI | Sep 23, 2026 | Katie Collins
Automated excerpt
On Tuesday at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm announced a pair of powerful new chips – the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. “We’re just now at the beginning of the agentic age, and Snapdragon is the platform built for it,” added Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, in his Snapdragon Summit keynote. Of the new dual chips, it’s the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 that will really take phones to the next level of performance and AI capabilities. Editor’s note: Katie Collins’ travel costs for the Snapdragon Summit were covered by Qualcomm.
Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.