Next year's batch of leading Android phones may perform a lot like this year's models. And the rising cost of silicon could be the reason why.
You'd imagine many of 2024's best phones to run on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the yet-to-be-announced update to Qualcomm's top-of-the-line system-on-chip for mobile devices. However, a rumor coming out of China claims the cost of upgrading to the latest Snapdragon chipset may be too high for some phone makers.
