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Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The recent Snapdragon chips have been awesome, but that's not Apple's magic, it's their x86 to ARM translation layer

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 15 points 1 year ago

It's not just the translation layer. There's hardware built into the CPU to accelerate the translation.

Pair that with the CPUs already being so incredibly efficient and you've got something that runs x86 programs as good as the old hardware.

[–] Anomalous_Llama 14 points 1 year ago

And the fact that they have silicon space dedicated to accelerating that translation layer specifically.

Good software and good hardware married to make a kickass move to ARM.