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I think they are to blame. Qualcomm is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) manufacturer of ARM chips, yet they still simply use reference designs. Besides,
by esclerofilo 6y ago
I think they are to blame. Qualcomm is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) manufacturer of ARM chips, yet they still simply use reference designs. Besides, for the next flagship (Snapdragon 888) they switched to Samsung 5nm (inferior to TSMC 5nm) and they're not even using the ARM-recommended 8MB L3 cache, but staying with 4MB.
It seems benchmarks for tha SoC aren't bad, but it really shows that they aren't really trying to catch up to Apple.
(My source is https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888-deep-dive https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888...)
- WanderPanda 6y agoBut isn't ARM to be blamed if the standard designs (which apparently almost everyone is using) are inferior?
- esclerofilo 6y agoYes and no. The problem is those standard designs have to please a very wide spectrum of customers, so in a lot of the tradeoffs in chip design (like area vs performance) they tend to lean more towards keeping area small. The Cortex X1 is supposed to change that, though, but it's very new.