So this is the long-awaited announcement on the fruits of Qualcomm's Nuvia acquisition a few years ago. The main and only relevant question is how it'll measure up against the Apple M3, AMD Z2, and Intel Meteor Lake chips next year.<p>Interesting that there's no hint of its relative single-thread performance. Wonder how the custom Oryon core stacks up against the ARM vanilla X4.
Historically, the bottleneck in all CPU's -- has been the speed at which data can be transferred from/to main memory.<p>A large on-board CPU cache -- solves that for smaller programs whose code and data can entirely fit into that cache.<p>But for larger programs whose code and data do not fit entirely into a CPU's cache -- the bottleneck is "how fast does it read/write from main memory?".<p>Here, for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite -- we are given a figure for that, of 136GB/sec.<p>Is it really that fast? Well, future benchmarking to confirm that number will have to take place. But if it really is that fast -- then that would be pretty respectable for a 2023 consumer CPU...
These are some bold claims. Higher performance than m2 max, or matching it at 30% less power.<p>I hope it's true because it sounds pretty amazing. AMD may have to release an arm chip too or they will be pushed out of the consumer market
Though I know the CPU itself has nothing to do with how the manufacturers build the laptops - I hope to dog that they make laptops that are as nice to use as the MBPs.<p>High quality track pads, great high refresh screens, tiny adapters (or just use your mobile phone charger) and fantastic battery life.<p>First class Linux support would make a "must buy" device.<p>If they deliver on that, other than compatibility, it would be the best portable development environment available. Combine that with FEX and Proton, it might prove to be a competent gaming device.<p>So much potential here, I shouldn't get my hopes up...
Do we know if the bootloader will be unlocked? Will we finally get laptops that can run aarch64 Linux distros out-of-the-box?<p>Otherwise, as a Linux user, I'd have to stick with x86.