Qualcomm Snapdragon. First gen: old tech. It all started with the Qualcomm MSM7201A clocked at 528MHz CPU inside the HTC Dream which was the first Android phone.

According to Rahman Google found that cached processes used “up to 50% less CPU cycles as compared to Android 13 public devices” during the Android 14 beta. Which is pretty good going.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, equipped with Oryon CPU architecture, is set to power flagship Android smartphones, replacing the Snapdragon 8 Gen naming scheme. Models such as the iQOO ...

Lars Bergstrom, Android's director of engineering, wants RISC-V to be seen as a "tier-1 platform" in Android, which would put it on par with Arm. That's a big change from just six months ago.