Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon Elite Gen 5, its latest flagship smartphone SoC, as well as the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme for PCs, at its Snapdragon Summit event. AI was, unsurprisingly (miserably, even) at the core of the presentation, with the additional PC focus providing lots of opportunities to talk about the interplay between cloud and edge. Dealing with the naming format, Qualcomm has essentially reverted to its numerical naming scheme, while keeping the Elite moniker that it introduced with the Gen 4 variant. While the marketing is very AI-focused, in terms of raw hardware, the 3 nm SoC is built around an eight-core CPU design, which houses two ‘Prime’ cores that are clocked at up to…