Qualcomm announced two phone chips at its Snapdragon Summit, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. They're its first chips built on TSMC's 2nm process, a smaller and more efficient way of making them, and both run their fastest cores at 5GHz, up from 4.6GHz last year. The Extreme version adds dedicated AI cores to its graphics chip, meant to run models with more than 30 billion parameters on the phone itself. It can also record 8K video at 60 frames a second. Motorola's Signature 27 is the first phone to use it.
The Galaxy S26 Ultra tops out at 8K and 30 frames a second, so the Extreme chip doubles that ceiling. The S27 Pro and S27 Ultra are expected to use it worldwide, per SamMobile, with the base S27 and S27 Plus getting the regular Snapdragon in China and North America. Samsung hasn't confirmed any of it. A chip that can shoot 8K at 60 also needs Samsung's camera software, sensors and cooling to keep up before the phone does.