Qualcomm just confirmed the naming for its next-gen flagship chipset, and it won’t exactly follow in the footsteps of last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite. The upcoming chip will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite 5. But why skip four generations? Well, it seems Qualcomm is reverting to its original Snapdragon 8 series naming scheme, which began in 2021 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. From then, we got the SD 8 Gen 2 in 2022, followed by the SD Gen 3 and last year’s SD 8 Elite, which would have been the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 5 would be the fifth chipset in the series...
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