Qualcomm is looking to fight fire with fire. Just a few weeks after Apple unveiled the new A19 chips that power its 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 upgraded GPU and NPU components that combine to deliver what Qualcomm touts as the world's fastest mobile system-on-chip. And we can confirm that early benchmarks of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5-powered reference device back up those claims.

There's more to the latest Snapdragon chip than faster speeds on benchmarks, though. Qualcomm is also touting new AI capabi

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