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Im shocked Qualcomm has done basically nothing with their existing "laptop class" chip, like the 7c and 8c, announced end of 2018, based off the a76 announced t
by rektide 5y ago
Im shocked Qualcomm has done basically nothing with their existing "laptop class" chip, like the 7c and 8c, announced end of 2018, based off the a76 announced that spring. I was skeptical & the initial chips landed at my low expecation level, but I at least thought they'd get better.
Tacking on another hundred mhz to nearly the same chip every now and then... thay is not what i expected. From thr outside perspective this looks like baffling non-delivery, utter unwillingness to try to compete. Three years latter & the offering is effectively unchanged.
By compare, MediaTek started slow, but was cheap, and they've gotten faster & faster. Respectable bottom up disruption.
- zitterbewegung 5y agoThey had a Windows emulation exclusivity contract and squandered it for so long that now it’s expired other tech companies like Apple could emulate Windows on their devices.
- wmf 5y agoThe 8cx gen 3 is finally not garbage but it's probably still too expensive. I am also surprised by Qualcomm's self-own here; if they had so little faith in the laptop market they could have just not entered it.