The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite will make its commercial debut with the Xiaomi 15 series. The announcement comes after Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship chipset at the Snapdragon Summit 2024 in Hawaii. Senior VP Adam Zeng (Zeng Xuezhong) announced it during his brief appearance on stage.
Xiaomi is scheduled to launch the 15 series tomorrow, October 23. It is expected that it will release only the Xiaomi 15 and 15 Pro at initially, with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra following later, potentially in early 2025. The Xiaomi 15 series will initially be limited to China, but the vanilla 15 and 15 Ultra are expected to launch globally in early 2025.