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'The equation has changed': Qualcomm explains why the Snapdragon 8 Elite doesn't need efficiency cores

Qualcomm engineers also explained why your phone battery isn't lasting longer when their CPUs keep getting more efficient every year.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is Qualcomm's coming-out party for custom Oryon silicon in smartphones and its sophomore effort with a major AI focus. (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Qualcomm, MediaTek, and OEMs judge efficiency by testing how much power the newer SoC uses to hit the old top benchmark of the last-gen chip. The Snapdragon Summit showed off demos with LLM functions, gaming physics engines, and other tech that fully tax the CPU, GPU, and NPU.

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