As per the latest leak, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S26 by January next year, and it will be powered by Qualcomm’s next flagship application processor Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. According to a digital post, Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will be unveiled in September instead of October because Qualcomm introduced their previous two flagship in October.
Is There Any Reason That Qualcomm Shifted to September from October for The Unveiling Event? And What Will Be The Processor Of Galaxy S26?
One of the main possible reason that MediaTek will introduce Dimensity 9500 SoC in the month of september so that MediaTek has the chance to hogging the media attention. Both of the company of chip design possibly to have their 2025 flagship AP manufactured of APs by TSMC using the third-generation 3nm process node.
Another reason may be that Samsung wants to pre-order earlier for their upcoming handset, that possibly the Galaxy series. S25 and S26 from Galaxy series were up in the same year. We all know that Samsung is in a rivalry with the iPhone. So it will help Samsung to compete with the iPhone by reducing the time gap between the release of its flagship.
What is the Digital Chat Station Weibo claims?
In September, both of the chips will be introduced. Android phones will be powered by Snapdragon Elite 2 in October, and Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is expected to be equipped with an upgraded Qualcomm with a speed of 5GHz. It will support LPDDR6 RAM and a new Adreno 840 GPU.
Configuration of Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
The Elite 2 version will remain the same configuration of 2+6 used in the previous version. This will run as fast as 4.32GHz and six performance cores clocked as fast as 3.53GHz. Compared with the previous version, it will deliver r 25% increase in performance, and Adreno 840 GPU offers a 30% increase in performance.
All Galaxy S26 will be powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 in the U.S, China, and Canada. But elsewhere, Galaxy S26 and S26+ will be powered by Samsung’s Exynos 2600, along with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. 2Upgrades on S26 Ultra all over the global markets.
