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The past 5 years in personal computing has been surreal. After years of Intel dominating and stagnating the desktop and laptop market, competition from AMD (Ryz
by magnio 3y ago
The past 5 years in personal computing has been surreal. After years of Intel dominating and stagnating the desktop and laptop market, competition from AMD (Ryzen) and subsequently Apple (Apple Silicon) has been a real treat for consumer. After years of Apple squarely beating the shit out of Qualcomm and years of Qualcomm not giving a shit due to its Android monopoly, competition from MediaTek (Dimensity) forced them to up their game. Now Apple is setting the standard for laptop performance, AMD is reviving the Windows laptop scene, Qualcomm is catching up to Apple CPU, outperforming its GPU, and realizing the Windows ARM dream. Exciting, exciting times ahead.
- re-thc 3y ago> and years of Qualcomm not giving a shit due to its Android monopoly What Qualcomm has is a modem and modem patent monopoly. There were early Android SoC competitors e.g. nVidia Tegra. The issue was the modem. Not the CPU.
- GeekyBear 3y agoWhat Qualcomm did have was an undisputed patent monopoly on one of the possible ways that cellular communication could be done. Now that 3G is being turned completely off in much of the world, the last vestiges of that advantage are going away and Qualcomm will have to learn to compete on a more level playing field.
- hmottestad 3y agoWhat alternatives are there to the current 5G Qualcomm modems?
- GeekyBear 3y ago5G is an open standard and patent holders are required to make a binding commitment to license their patents on FRAND (Fair Reasonable and Non Discriminatory) terms to all comers before their patents can become part of that standard. Even low cost Mediatek SOCs have a built in standards compliant 5G implementation. https://www.mediatek.com/technology/5g/5g-modem https://www.mediatek.com/technology/5g/5g-modem
- hmottestad 3y agoIs it any good compared to what Qualcomm has to offer?
- ksec 3y agoIt is not bad, but people who got used to Qualcomm will complain about reception. I think most customer cant tell difference between 3 / 3.5Ghz or 8 / 12 GB Memory , but when they have a spot where they used to receive better signal they will complain. So it really depends on what you consider as good.
- GeekyBear 3y agoWhich means that Qualcomm has to compete on the merits now and not just on the basis of their patent monopoly.
- hulitu 3y ago> Now Apple is setting the standard for laptop performance, Too bad it doesn't run Windows. Sincerely, the purchasing department. /s
- jacooper 3y agoControversial opinion, but yes, it not running Windows Is annoying and a deal breaker for some. MacOS is really that bad.