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Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates | Starting with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm enables up to eight years of update support.

Starting with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm enables up to eight years of update support.

With Google's assistance, the chipmaker has committed to providing extended vendor support to any OEM building on its most powerful chips, pushing the theoretical lifespan of Android devices to eight years. With Qualcomm's support, OEMs will be able to provide eight years of security patches, and there will also be at least two updates to the vendor's Android Common Kernel during that time. The combination of consistent vendor layer support and fresh kernels will, according to Qualcomm, make it faster and easier for OEMs to deploy updates.

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