Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 8 Elite processor yesterday, during an event in Hawaii. That is the company’s most powerful chip to date. The Xiaomi 15 series will be the first to bring the Snapdragon 8 Elite to market, as expected.
The Xiaomi 15 series will be the first phones to bring Snapdragon 8 Elite to market
This is something that a Xiaomi representative confirmed a while back, but now we got an official confirmation during the SoC launch event. It was written as clear as day, as you can see below.
The Xiaomi 15 series is expected to arrive on October 23. Xiaomi did not flat out say it, but the date was written on a poster back when the Snapdragon 8 Elite name was first confirmed. The Xiaomi 15 series was also mentioned on that poster.
Now, considering that the Snapdragon 8 Elite did not launch on October 23, but on October 21… that leaves us with the Xiaomi 15 series. One thing to note is that this announcement will be for the Chinese market only.
The global launch will follow later on, though we don’t know when exactly. If the company ends up sticking to its usual release cycle, we could see the Xiaomi 15 make its global debut at the end of February.
The Xiaomi 14 series launched in China at the end of October last year. The global launch followed at the end of February. So, the same could happen with the Xiaomi 15 series too.
Xiaomi will announce two smartphones this month
Xiaomi is expected to announce two smartphones, the Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Pro. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra will likely use the same processor, but that phone is not expected to debut until next year.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite was expected to be called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Qualcomm decided to mix things up, though. The company probably did that so that it brings its mobile SoC within the same umbrella as its PC chipsets, such as the Snapdragon X Elite.
Qualcomm is using its Oryon CPU cores for the first time, these are second-gen cores, though. The Prime cores can reach a record 4.32GHz clock speed, while the performance cores are clocked at up to 3.53GHz. If you’d like to know more about this chip, click here.
Do note that the Xiaomi 15 also surfaced on Geekbench with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. It managed to score 3,180 points in the single-core, and 10,058 points in the multi-core test. That model included 16GB of RAM.
