Xiaomi 15 will be launched this month with Snapdragon 8 Elite chip

Snapdragon 8 Elite —Qualcomm’s new SoC was launched Monday at the company’s Summit 2024 event in Maui. During the keynote, Xiaomi’s senior vice president Adam Zeng announced that his next flagship Xiaomi 15 will be the first smartphone with the latest chip. The successor to the Xiaomi 14 will be unveiled at the end of this month. The Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC is built on TSMC’s 3nm process and has prime cores with a maximum speed of 4.32 GHz.

Xiaomi senior vice president Adam Zeng announced that Xiaomi 15 will be the first smartphone to arrive in the global market with the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC. Qualcomm unveiled the new chipset during the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It gets a dedicated Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), custom second-generation Qualcomm Oryon CPU, and an enhanced AI image signal processing unit (ISP).

The Xiaomi 15 will feature Snapdragon 8 Elite combined with Xiaomi’s HyperCore technology. Zeng states that this new technology covers performance, graphics, networking and security areas. This combination is said to reduce the Xiaomi 15’s energy consumption by 29.7 percent. The upcoming phone is claimed to run 3 degrees Celsius cooler at peak temperatures compared to previous generation phones.

Xiaomi 15 will be launched at the end of October

Zeng also confirmed that the Xiaomi 15 series will be launched “at the end of October”. In addition to the Xiaomi 15 series, the OnePlus 13, which will debut on October 31, and the Asus ROG Phone 9, which will launch in November, are also confirmed to use the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.

However, the Xiaomi 15 will be the first to unveil the capabilities of the new chipset in global markets outside of China. In India, the Realme GT 7 Pro has been confirmed to be the first phone to get the new chipset.