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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges

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Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges

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MBCook wrote: post #16
walterbell wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/qualcomm-goes-wh... > Qualcomm has most of the critical functions working inside.. Linux 6.9.. critical functions include UEFI-based boot support along with all the standard bootloaders like Grub and system-d.. Functions that are being worked on for future iterations of Linux include additions to battery support,…

Does that well get good benchmarks soon?

Yeah, Linux is noticeably faster than Windows.

Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges

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bobmcnamara wrote: post #14
wmf wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, the CPU is ARM but you need drivers for everything else. Fortunately Qualcomm is providing those drivers.

Not quite, Oryon is a custom design implementing AArch64 Instruction Set Architecture by Nuvia, a Qualcomm acquisition.

Also known as the ARM instruction set.

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Post by seltzered_ »

moneywoes wrote: post #20

Is it possible to get a Snapdragon X device that runs both Android & Windows on ARM? Imagine a Surface that you undock and becomes an Android tablet

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid does this feature in a two-separate systems in one kind of way.

Arguably you can just run linux and waydroid which already runs fine for many scenarios on x86.

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alberth wrote: post #19

The ex-Apple team who started Nuvia (which was acquired by Qualcomm and maker of this chip), is really giving Apple a run for their money - especially given that these chips are fab’ed on 2 gen order nodes than what Apple gets from TSMC.

Wasn’t ARM suing because of this, what ever happened with that?

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Post by wyldfire »

cjboco wrote: post #25
alberth wrote: post #19

The ex-Apple team who started Nuvia (which was acquired by Qualcomm and maker of this chip), is really giving Apple a run for their money - especially given that these chips are fab’ed on 2 gen order nodes than what Apple gets from TSMC.

Wasn’t ARM suing because of this, what ever happened with that?

The lawsuit is still outstanding.

Presumably the claimants would not seek to enjoin distribution of the new design, that would be suicide. They probably just want royalties that Qualcomm would ordinarily have negotiated on their own as an architectural licensee. Or perhaps, what they previously paid as an architectural licensee.

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Post by hi-v-rocknroll »

alberth wrote: post #19

The ex-Apple team who started Nuvia (which was acquired by Qualcomm and maker of this chip), is really giving Apple a run for their money - especially given that these chips are fab’ed on 2 gen order nodes than what Apple gets from TSMC.

If there were an almost FOSS personal electronics company that made quality, durable, and repairable devices with clean UX, usability, and long term OS-app compatibility, these would have a wider audience than simply infinitely-upgradeable laptops or laptops that are designed to be vintaged every 7 years. Call me a socialist, but designed to break just after the warranty and planned obsolescence are scourges resulting in higher profits, but suck for the customer, lose goodwill, and are fundamentally uncool for what they do to the planet. It is more ethical and respectable to craft excellent things that are "too durable" that people will treasure for many years because it's better than creating overpriced, pretty, fragile, incompatible e-waste.

Similarly, an "Apple for datacenters" like Oxide but larger scale (by the rack as a demo and intermodal container-scale customarily) with integrated, observable, resilient, multi-tenant {bare metal, I, k8s, P, GPU, network, storage}aaS.

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