Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon chip could push phone prices over the edge

• Qualcomm’s rumored Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro could cost over $300 per chip, making it the company’s priciest mobile processor yet.
• Qualcomm is reportedly splitting its next flagship lineup into standard and Pro versions, with the Pro chip aimed at Ultra-tier Android phones.
• The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is rumored to pack TSMC’s 2nm process, an Adreno 850 GPU, bigger cache, wider memory bandwidth, and LPDDR6 RAM support.

Qualcomm’s next flagship chip could offer more than just a bump in benchmark scores. It could also push up the price of premium Android handsets.

A fresh leak suggests that the rumored Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro may cost smartphone makers more than $300 per chip, making it Qualcomm’s most expensive mobile processor to date. The figure comes from tipster Abhishek Yadav, who posted a breakdown on X showing how the cost of Qualcomm’s flagship silicon has steadily increased over the past few years.