--- title: Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis... description: Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chips at its Snapdragon Summit, emphasizing on-device AI. The chips include... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai-o2lgsuodg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI | daily.dev og:description: Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chips at its Snapdragon Summit, emphasizing on-device AI. The chips include... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai-o2lgsuodg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/o2LgSUODg.png og:image:alt: Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chips at its Snapdragon Summit, emphasizing on-device AI. The chips include new sensing hubs capable of running small models up to 200 million parameters for local personal scribe and speaker differentiation, plus voice-in/voice-out agents. The Extreme version can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally, larger than Apple's 20-billion-parameter MoE model announced at WWDC. New camera capabilities include 8K 60fps and 4K240 recording, plus the Advanced Professional Video codec. Motorola announced its Signature 27 phone using the new Extreme chip, expected to launch this year. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How large a model can the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 run locally on a smartphone? The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model directly on the device. Because it uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, only a subset of those 30 billion parameters activates for any given task, making local inference more efficient. This is larger than the 20-billion-parameter MoE model Apple introduced for its third-generation foundation models at WWDC. _Developers building on-device AI features can track chip capabilities like this on daily.dev._ ### What new AI-focused hardware features are in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips? The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 include a new sensing hub that runs small models up to 200 million parameters locally, enabling a personal scribe, speaker differentiation, and usage-based memory for task automation. The chips also support a complete voice-in and voice-out agent, plus a new accelerator element for more efficient on-device model execution. _Anyone evaluating on-device AI hardware can follow chip announcements like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5](https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-announces-the-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-eqnuagusf) · The Verge · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end](https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-wants-to-be-the-chip-inside-whatever-replaces-your-smartphone-and-it-just-announced-two-pr-uzzjtkasw) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Qualcomm reveals its not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5](https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-reveals-its-not-so-elite-snapdragon-8-gen-5-bp9qxb5vz) · The Verge · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#local-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/local-ai), [#mixture-of-experts](https://daily.dev/tags/mixture-of-experts) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai-o2lgsuodg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai-o2lgsuodg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai-o2lgsuodg"},"datePublished":"2026-09-22T20:04:16.063Z","dateModified":"2026-09-23T00:37:07.982Z","description":"Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chips at its Snapdragon Summit, emphasizing on-device AI. 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