The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is the rumored top-end version of the company’s upcoming chipset for mobile devices, and it seems that Xiaomi may be skipping it to avoid a significantly more costly manufacturing process for its new flagship smartphones. The RAM shortage is heavily impacting what seems like every corner of the consumer electronics market. From rising prices on RAM modules to much more expensive GPUs, a lack of available RAM has taken its toll on many different devices.
Unfortunately, smartphones and other mobile electronics, such as tablets and laptops, won’t be immune to these increased costs. Xiaomi, for its part, may look to the slightly less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. This would be done as one way of keeping the costs down for manufacturing its latest flagships. At least, that’s what the latest rumor is claiming.
Xiaomi might still use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro in one device
According to a new rumor from Digital Chat Station on Weibo, Xiaomi will not be using the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro in its new flagships. Specifically, the Xiaomi 18, Xiaomi 18 Pro, or Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Instead, it’s stated that Xiaomi will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 or the Dimensity 9600. These are less expensive chipsets.
However, Wccftech points out that there is a pretty good chance that Xiaomi may also be launching the Xiaomi 18 Ultra as part of this phone series. It also mentions that it is highly likely that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will be used here. As Xiaomi’s most premium version of its flagship phone, it would make sense to offer the most premium version of Qualcomm’s flagship chipset. Of course, all of this should be taken with a grain of salt for now. Nothing has been confirmed
However, it’s also mentioned that Xiaomi’s decision to use a 2nm process for its upcoming phones is part of thisdecision. As this process is “extremely expensive” in conjunction with Qualcomm’s Pro chip. So, there’s still a possibility this rumor is true.
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