{"id":502400,"date":"2026-06-30T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502400\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:19:14","slug":"qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-summit-2026-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502400\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Summit 2026 dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has announced it will host its annual Snapdragon Summit from September 22-24 in Maui, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>While Qualcomm hasn&#8217;t revealed what it will announce at this Snapdragon Summit, it&#8217;s likely the US-based chipmaker will introduce a successor to last year&#8217;s flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, rumored to be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (SM8950).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782807553_758_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Summit 2026 dates\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, that might not be the only mobile platform Qualcomm will announce at the Summit, as it&#8217;s rumored to introduce the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro (SM8975) as well.<\/p>\n<p>A recent leak revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomm_snapdragon_8_elite_gen_5xx_snapdragon_8_gen_5_pro_surface-news-73464.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qualcomm is also working on two 3nm chips<\/a>: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5XX version (SM8850Q) and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Pro (SM8845 Pro).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomm_snapdragon_8_elite_gen_5_soc_features_specs-news-69656.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomm_unveils_snapdragon_8_gen_5_as_its_flagshipkiller_chip-news-70444.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Gen 5<\/a> were unveiled last year, bearing part numbers SM8850 and SM8845, respectively. It&#8217;s unclear how different the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5XX version will be from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, so we&#8217;ll have to wait for more details to surface to have a better idea of this chip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/06\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-series-roadmap-surfaces\/inline\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 series roadmap tipped by Digital Chat Station\" width=\"450\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782807554_426_gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>Qualcomm&#8217;s Snapdragon 8 series roadmap tipped by Digital Chat Station<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Pro, we&#8217;ve heard rumors that it could also be launched as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Snapdragon\/status\/2071704031601320104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qualcomm has announced it will host its annual Snapdragon Summit from September 22-24 in Maui, Hawaii. While Qualcomm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-502400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}