Although the new Xiaomi 14T and 14T Pro were presented today, the company does not stop and will soon unveil the new generation of “premium” smartphones: the Xiaomi 15. The announcement was leaked on Chinese social networks, and in addition to the presentation date, it also reveals an important detail of the new devices: the processor.
The reader may think that the processor was one of those already known things, and he is right. It’s clear that the Xiaomi 15 is going to use Qualcomm’s new cutting-edge processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, the same way the Xiaomi 14 used the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. That’s still true, according to this leak, but ago This was a very interesting last minute change.
And, according to the leaked ad, the Xiaomi 15 will use the new Snapdragon 8 Elite; but it would not be a “new” processor, but the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 which had already been leaked. Indeed, everything indicates that Qualcomm will once again change the nomenclature of its processors, at least in those intended for the “premium” range of smartphones; the objective, to benefit from the success he obtained in computer science.
And this year the first Copilot+ PC computers were launched, based on ten-core Snapdragon Elite X Plus processors, and this summer the first models equipped with the eight-core Snapdragon Elite. These are processors that have opened up a whole new world to PC users, due to their autonomy and power that have nothing to envy of their traditional competitors such as Intel and AMD.
The success of the Snapdragon Elite X Plus appears to have motivated Qualcomm to change the way it names its processors, so that users better associate the two products. The result is this Snapdragon 8 Elite which, in the absence of last minute surprises, should be the most powerful processor for Android phones which will be launched in 2025; and therefore it will be one of the most requested.
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The Xiaomi 15 is the first mobile phone reportedly confirmed with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but it won’t be the only one; At least some versions of the Galaxy S25 are also expected to use it, and in fact there has already been a leak of a Galaxy S25 Ultra with this processor that reportedly performed very well in tests, with a 35% improvement in single-core tasks and 30% in multi-core tasks.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite should rely on a 3nm manufacturing process from TSMC, and on the Oryon architecture to obtain two high-performance cores with a frequency of no less than 4.0 Ghz, crazy; They would be accompanied by six more efficient 2.8 GHz cores. We probably won’t have to wait long to see this power. Xiaomi’s announcement indicates that the Xiaomi 15 will be presented on October 23, so the processor will be presented a little earlier, or even on the same day.
