Snapdragon Summit 2024 — the chip maker’s annual event where it unveils its flagship smartphone processor — kicked off Monday with the unveiling of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This high-end smartphone chipset is confirmed to be available in smartphones from several brands including Asus, iQOO, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Vivo and Xiaomi. South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung also revealed that its upcoming phones will be powered by the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that was unveiled by Qualcomm last year.
Samsung confirms that future Galaxy smartphones will have the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip
At the ongoing Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Samsung Mobile president TM Roh said that future Galaxy phones will be powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Given that the Samsung Galaxy S series and Z series models are the company’s most powerful smartphones, we can assume that the Galaxy S25 series will be the first Samsung phone with the new processor.
“Qualcomm will help us move forward with Qualcomm’s expertise in intelligent computing, and the commitment to the development of mobile artificial intelligence will be a big part of the future Galaxy AI experience,” Roh said at the event.
It didn’t say which smartphones will run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, so it’s unclear whether all successors to the Galaxy S24 series will have the newly introduced processor.
While Samsung equipped all three models of the Galaxy S23 series with the Galaxy-specific Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, only the Ultra model of the Galaxy S24 series featured the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, while the standard and Plus models had the Exynos 2400 processor.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip may also be used in the successors to the Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 smartphones, but those models are not expected to arrive until the second half of 2025. On the other hand, the Galaxy S25 series of smartphones is expected to arrive in early 2025 with Samsung’s One UI 7 software update based on Android 15.
