Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip for smartphones will support eight generations of Android, a major step up for the company.. Chris Patrick, the company’s senior vice president and general ...

Google and Qualcomm have partnered to provide up to eight years of Android updates for select devices starting with the Snapdragon 8 Elite on Android 15.

Qualcomm relies heavily on ARM's chip architecture to design its Snapdragon processors, which power a vast majority of Android devices. If ARM revokes Qualcomm's licence, it would disrupt Qualcomm ...