Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed
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In this episode we dive into the how Qualcomm is looking to be a new challenger to both Apple and Intel. This was thanks in part to a purchase of the firm Nu...

Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks.

Though the impression I get is that this is for Laptops, imagine having a phone with this power, a foldable would make sense.

As a Linux user, I’ve been following the development of Asahi Linux (Linux on the M series MacBooks) with this new development there’s some exciting times to come.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    All the performance is great, but when I get my first ARM laptop almost everything I want to run is going to be x86. It must perform acceptably with today’s applications to be a viable alternative.

    Apple has already proven that emulation can be sufficiently good that a casual user won’t notice the difference. If Microsoft is smart this will be a requirement.

    I want to download and execute a utility written for Windows XP on Intel and forget that I’m even using ARM. If you tell the user his favorite app won’t work, he will buy a different laptop.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Yes. Exactly. They need to make it as butter smooth as possible and MS might struggle a bit here due to so much legacy stuff they support till date.