The company was previously rumoured to be working on the SC8480XP; however, according to an update, the San Diego firm is working on not one but two chips. Both of them apparently have complete support for DX12 features and hardware-accelerated ray tracing. One of the successors is said to be tested with 18 Orion cores.

For those not in the know, ‘Project Glymur’ is rumoured to be Qualcomm’s next high-end Snapdragon X Elite successor with an 18-core configuration but retaining LPDDR5X support

An ongoing discussion on X between @negativeonehero and @curunnil reveals that Qualcomm is working on ‘Project Mahua’ and ‘Project Glymur. ’

Mahua will be Hamoa’s direct successor—the Snapdragon X Elite. The upcoming silicon is said to feature a 12-core CPU in the ‘6 + 6’ CPU cluster. It may also have 128-bit LPDDR5X RAM, but the exact speeds have yet to be disclosed.

Both upcoming chipsets support DX12 features and hardware-accelerated Ray. Glymur will likely be Qualcomm’s top-end offering, as it is said to be tested with 18 cores in the ‘6 + 6 + 6’ cluster. Its LPDDR5X RAM is rumoured to feature a 192-bit bus width.

The unnamed source for all this is unreliable and is just one stage above a “man in a pub told me,” but the claim is that both SoCs are being prepped for a launch in H1 2026. The rumour does not mention which manufacturing process Qualcomm intends to use, but assuming that 2026 is the exact year, the company could rely on TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3P’ node.