Why was their first platform windows? I thought windows had terrible ARM support.
They’ve basically been the biggest partner with Microsoft to try and launch an ARM ecosystem for Windows. The oldest ARM laptops were made by them AFAIK
It’s rumored Qualcomm actually has an exclusivity deal for Windows on ARM that’s expiring in 2025. Supposedly, Nvidia and AMD both have chips being prepared for that.
Microsoft is very much trying to push ARM forward, in order to compete with heat, noise, and battery life of Apple laptops and tablets.
Tangentially OT:
“Snapdragon X Elite”? Wasn’t the name “Snapdragon” already enough cringe? :)
Didn’t know about the flower!
Qualcomm didn’t actually choose the name because of it (they choose it because it “sounded fast and fierce”), but now that I know about the flower I’ll think of it instead of snappy dragons whenever I hear the SOC name.
Honest question out of sheer ignorance. Could this, in theory, open doors for an OEM to finally start working on a Linux mobile phone and for devs to spin distros for those phones?
That would make me very happy.
Oh wow, kind of like apple puts an M chip in iPads now, maybe a throttled version of a Snapdragon X chip could be used to make a phone. Didn’t think of that but that would be very cool
This isn’t a phone focused product, and the thermal envelope is quite a bit larger. It’s meant for laptops, and maybe some tablets will see it. These are Oryon cores from their purchase of Nuvia, and I don’t think a whole lot will transfer over.
Awesome. Hope to see this in pcs from someone like Tuxedo and System76.
Yes please. Passively cooled Framework with a much longer runtime on battery => awesome.
Was anyone ever able to install linux on the “Windows Dev Kit 2023” that Qualcomm makes?
