Qualcomm Takes on the iPhone 18 Pro With Its Most ‘Extreme’ Chip Yet
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6—described as “extreme” and no longer even the flagship—shows how fast the mobile silicon ladder is being climbed to support heavier AI. Expect a widening gap between apps that exploit these NPU gains and those that still assume cloud-first inference.
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