Qualcomm denies Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 overheating reports
Key points
- Qualcomm says reports of overheating in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 are inaccurate.
- Qualcomm's chief marketing officer, Don McGuire, made the denial in a reply to a thread on X.
- A Korean news outlet reported that Samsung's internal testing found the chip ran too hot and throttled its performance.
- The same report said Samsung is considering using only its own Exynos chip in the Galaxy S27 Ultra next year.
- According to that report, Samsung's Exynos 2700 handled the same testing without problems.
The overheating claim is a rumor. It comes from a single Korean news outlet, and no test results were shared with it. Qualcomm’s denial is the only on-record response so far. Samsung has not commented in the coverage we found.
The story moved quickly. The Korean report appeared first, followed by wide pickup online, and then McGuire’s reply the next day. Wccftech noted that his follow-up post on X names only the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, not the Extreme version the report is about. The outlet read that as a detail that raises questions. The other two outlets did not make that point, and neither confirmed it as a deliberate omission.
The coverage does not say whether Samsung has made a final chip decision for the Galaxy S27 Ultra. For now, the Exynos-only plan remains an unconfirmed report.
