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Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite

It’s chip season.

The Oryon CPU inside the 8 Elite hasn’t been borrowed directly from the laptop chips; Qualcomm is calling it a second gen chipset. I asked Qualcomm’s mobile handset SVP Chris Patrick what all of that upgraded hardware would translate to in the hands of smartphone users, and the examples he gave boil down to more desktop-like performance from a phone. The first 8 Elite devices from brands like Asus, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo, and Xiaomi are expected to launch “in the coming weeks.”

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