Qualcomm is looking to fight fire with fire. Just a few weeks after Apple unveiled the new A19 chips that power its data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apple-iphone-17-review” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apple-iphone-17-review”>iPhone 17 models, Qualcomm today (September 24) showed off the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 system-on-chip that will power many of the leading Android phones for the next year. And like its chief rival from Apple, this silicon promises a big performance boost.
The 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 features an 8-core CPU, along with an upgraded GPU and a neural processing unit that Qualcomm says has…

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