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It's a false claim that there is GHz rat-race in the Android world. There is one Android SoC maker of note, and that is Qualcomm, who achieved total dominance o
by DCKing 12y ago
It's a false claim that there is GHz rat-race in the Android world. There is one Android SoC maker of note, and that is Qualcomm, who achieved total dominance of high end smartphones by anticompetitive behaviour.
Just because Qualcomm's design achieves high clock speeds doesn't mean there's a rat-race in the Android world. Since Qualcomm dominates, there is no race at all. Second, Qualcomm's competitors are much more moderately clocked. Samsung's, Intel's and Nvidia's current high end chips don't even touch 2 GHz yet.
For a rat race you need rats and a race. But there's only one rat and no race.
- baddox 12y agoWhat was Qualcomm's anti-competitive behavior?
- kllrnohj 12y agoTheir SoCs were too good. Critically even though they may not always have the best CPU cores or best GPUs, they do have the best radios. And integrating that into the SoC is just better from a power perspective, making Snapdragon overall the best SoC package for a phone.
- ksk 12y agoI accept your point.