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Does Qualcomm actually need to whole-ass a solution though? They're making gobs of money on mobile SoCs, any additional market for these chips is just gravy. Mi
by arglebargle123 4y ago
Does Qualcomm actually need to whole-ass a solution though? They're making gobs of money on mobile SoCs, any additional market for these chips is just gravy. Microsoft is the party that stands to really gain from a successful x86 alternative here but they don't seem like they're willing to pony up Apple or Google money to design their own chips yet.
- wmf 4y agoQualcomm is fully capable of building an SoC with eight X2 or X3 cores, for example, if MS is willing to pay for it. I think it's on MS that they didn't set higher performance goals for Qualcomm. Nvidia can also design good ARM chips (see Orin) but MS went and got married to Qualcomm (never do this!) so they can't use them.
- JAlexoid 4y agoQualcomm's value proposition isn't the chip itself. It's the package, that includes the baseband.