Qualcomm has a new chip for flagship phones, and the best part is that it uses an improved version of the Oryon CPU architecture that the Snapdragon X Elite chips brought to Windows PCs earlier this year.

It wouldn't be a new chip without AI being crammed in, and Qualcomm has indeed embedded the Snapdragon 8 Elite with its Hexagon NPU. The chip maker claims it is 60 percent better in terms of "AI performance" than the previous generation, but that remains to be seen in real world applications.

Qualcomm's top-of-the-line mobile chip is getting a new name. But the newly unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite offers more than just surface changes as it's built on a 3-nanometer process, features a new CPU and promises plenty of neural processing to handle new on-device AI features.