Qualcomms new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips bring agentic AI to mobile phones

Qualcomm announces its most powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip built for aganetic AI computing on mobile phones.

See all the highlights and announcements from the annual Snapdragon Summit 2026.

Read more about Qualcomm chips and Snapdragon laptops: Microsoft unveils new Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 with Snapdragon X2 chips This is the first Snapdragon C laptop ever shown Timecode chapters 0:00 Introduction and the age of agentic AI 2:34 Introducing Snapdragon 8 Elite and extreme Gen 6 3:33 Xiaomi 18 Pro series announcement 5:08 Qualcomm Oryon CPU and flex cache architecture 6:13 Sensing hub and personal scribe context 7:38 Hexagon NPU and agentic AI acceleration 9:26 AI ISP architecture and intelligent Pixel control 10:53 Adreno neural fusion and mobile gaming tech 12:05 Sanctuary Unreal Engine 5 real-time demo 13:08 Motorola Signature 27 first look Video credits Video editor: Stephen Beacham Thumbnail designer: Stephen Beacham