Qualcomm has confirmed it will raise prices across most of its chip line-up by a double-digit percentage for products shipped after 1 September 2026. CEO Cristiano Amon was blunt about the reasoning in an interview: 'Cost went up, prices are going to go up.' The company cited a broad-based rise in input costs across wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, packaging and memory.
Because Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips power a large share of the world's premium Android phones, including Samsung's Galaxy S26 series, OnePlus 15, Xiaomi 15 and Oppo's Find X9 Ultra, a price rise at the chip level is likely to filter through to the phones themselves.
