Coming Motorola Flagship Will Sport Cutting Edge 3 Nm Chip
Chris Griffith
02 Dec 2025
Motorola’s next flagship phone will sport a state-of-the-art 3 nanometer chip, a major leap in semiconductor technology that should be 10-15 percent faster than 5 nanometer designs.
That’s according to serial leaker Evan Blass, who claims the coming Motorola Edge 70 Ultra will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip.
Gizmochina reports that the Edge 70 Ultra will be Motorola’s first non-folding Ultra phone in a few years, since the company skipped the Edge 60 Ultra. “It is expected to sit above the regular Edge 70 models but below the Razr Ultra 2026, which is rumored to use the more powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.”
Evan Blass tweet
“The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is built on a 3 nm process. It uses an Oryon CPU with two cores clocked at 3.8 GHz and six cores clocked at 3.32 GHz,” Gizmochina reports.
“Qualcomm says it delivers higher performance than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in everyday tasks, multitasking, and heavy workloads. The chip includes an updated Adreno GPU that focuses on stable gaming performance while keeping power use lower. Its Hexagon NPU improves on-device AI features, including local processing for generative models, voice recognition, and multimodal inputs.”
The phone is expected to be released globally in early 2026.
