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Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Qualcomm's annual "Snapdragon Summit" is coming up later this month, and the company appears ready to share more about its long-planned next-generation Arm processor for PCs.

The company hasn't shared many specifics yet, but yesterday we finally got a name: "Snapdragon X," which is coming in 2024, and it may finally do for Arm-powered Windows PCs what Apple Silicon chips did for Macs a few years ago (though it's coming a bit later than Qualcomm had initially hoped).

But those chips have never quite been fast enough to challenge Intel's Core or AMD's Ryzen CPUs in mainstream laptops.

Any performance deficit is especially noticeable because many people will run at least a few apps designed for the x86 version of Windows, code that needs to be translated on the fly for Arm processors.

Even if Qualcomm delivers an Arm chip that's significantly faster and more power-efficient than its current offerings, there are still software hurdles to overcome.

In other words, they were negotiated based on Nuvia's then-stated focus on server CPUs, rather than high-volume processors for consumer PCs.

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