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Snapdragon 1000

Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:53 pm

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/23/sna ... 1000-leak/
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Re: Snapdragon 1000

Mon Jun 25, 2018 4:23 pm

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Re: Snapdragon 1000

Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:17 pm

Ars wrote:
The Snapdragon 1000 is believed to be an even more powerful laptop chip intended to go head to head with Intel's Y- and U-series Core processors. These have a 4.5W and 15W power envelope, respectively, and are used in a wide range of tablets and Ultrabook-type laptops. The Snapdragon 1000 is reported to have a 6.5W power draw for the CPU itself, with a total power draw of 12W for the entire SoC. The Snapdragon 1000 test platform has 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM and two 128GB UFS flash drives. It also has 802.11ad gigabit Wi-Fi, gigabit LTE, and a new power management controller.
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Re: Snapdragon 1000

Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:02 am

Nice enough probably (I don't know how many cores and what clocks it has) ... but the target market for it is small, either Chromebooks or Windows on ARM tablets/convertibles.

The former seems more likely, trying to get ARM into the higher-end Chromebook space to give a better user experience for running Android apps than a model with an x86 CPU. It's probably also putting down a marker for Microsoft to see too, "here is reasonably good performance from an ARM CPU now please get 64b ARM app building into VS2019 please"?
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Re: Snapdragon 1000

Tue Jun 26, 2018 5:39 am

I'd love some more competition in the x86 space, but this is still ARM, right?

The USP of PC architecture is the ability to natively run x86 code without the performance/efficiency penalty of emulation, IMO. At 12W of power draw, this thing is going to face some incredibly tough competition.
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Re: Snapdragon 1000

Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:32 am

Importance of x86 is diminishing though; nowadays, with practically everything going "Cloud", the most important thing for many use cases is the ability to efficiently run a standards-compliant web browser. No, ARM won't displace x86 anytime soon; but it'll continue to nibble at x86's market share around the edges.
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