n.b. caveat lector and PMIC seems to be "power management integrated circuit" from https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qualcomms-oryon-soc/

n.b. caveat lector and PMIC seems to be "power management integrated circuit" from https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qualcomms-oryon-soc/ https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qual...: "Things started to go off the rails early for Oryon, not for design reasons but for idiotic corporate greed reasons. Qualcomm wants to sell more of their PMICs and Qryon seemed like a good vehicle to do it so they force bundled the two products. This is hardly unprecedented behavior although it is market distorting and ensures that the end result will be less than it could be. More on this in a bit but just realize the PMICs are not picked for merit, they were chosen because Qualcomm makes more money that way, quality of the final product be damned. Remember the crack above about Microsoft? Back to the story, there was an issue with said PMICs. Basically they are cell phone PMICs and Oryon is not a cell phone SoC. Why is this an issue? You might be aware that cell phones and laptops require differing wattages, and not by a little. Those cell phone PMICs are optimized for phone currents, running them at laptop levels is far less efficient than engineers would prefer. But it can be made to work. The sane answer is to use a less expensive off the shelf PMIC that would result in a more efficient end product. Since that would also have the effect of making Qualcomm less money, efficiency be damned, Qualcomm PMICs it is. But…" read the article for the rest of the sad own-goal story...