The flagship mobile phone processor market is about to enter the new generation of competition! New generation flagship mobile processors including Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and Joint Development's Tianhua 9500 will be officially u...
The flagship mobile phone processor market is about to enter the new generation of competition! New generation flagship mobile processors including Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and Joint Development's Tianhua 9500 will be officially unveiled in September, and are expected to become the core force of the 2026 flagship mobile phone.
First, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2, Qualcomm held its Snapdragon summit from 23 to 25, unveiling the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 flagship mobile processor, opening the prelude to the competition.
From the known news, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 adopts the third-generation 3nm N3P of TECHNOLOGY, which is more efficient than the previous generation Snapdragon 8 Elite. With the new Adreno 840 GPU and NPU, the TOPS is more than twice as high as the Snapdragon X Elite. Core specifications, although the same 2+6 CPU core set of Snapdragon 8 Elite is retained, the newer Pegasus core can reach 5.00GHz in large cores.
Despite the same eight cores, the upgrade of the Adreno 840 GPU and NPU makes the base score of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 running score software Antutu, the fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship product is 40.7%, making Qualcomm's previous product still have advantages over its competitors. NPU performance has also been greatly improved, with the storage memory being increased to 16MB, the L2 storage memory being increased to 32MB, and the NPU processing speed is up to 100TOPS, which is more than twice the 45TOPS of the Snapdragon X Elite NPU.
At almost the same time, IC design major industrial departments also want to promote the Tiancang 9500 processor. At the second quarter of the Legal Conference, Vice Chairman and Executive Chairman Cai Lixing pointed out that the mobile phone business performance is very stable and continues to expand the flagship market. In 2025, the flagship mobile phone business revenue reached US$3 billion, with an annual growth rate of more than 40%. Looking forward to the third quarter, the flagship product revenue will grow at Tianhua 9500. It can be seen that Joint Development Technology is also looking forward to Tianhua 9500.
The market news is over. Tianhua 9500 adopts the third generation of NTD 3 nanometer N3P, and continues to adopt the Tianhua 9400, and continues to adopt the full core CPU. One super core Travis, three super core Alto, and four large core Gelas are all launched for the first time. Travi, Alto belongs to X9 series, supports Arm SME instruction set, Gelas belongs to A7 series.
Tianwan 9500 built-in Drage Immortalis GPU has a new micro architecture, and its energy efficiency has been greatly improved by more than 40% compared to the previous generation Immortalis-G925. The GPU ray tracing performance has also increased by more than 40%. It is not only the most powerful mobile processor of Joint Development Corporation, but also the most powerful processor for Android.
