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Benchmarking Apple, Qualcomm also began to expand the PC market: launching a custom kernel Oryon

Update time : 2022-11-21 10:40:17

On November 16, Qualcomm held the 2022 Snapdragon Summit in Sanya and Hawaii simultaneously, and released a new generation of Snapdragon 8 platform and launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, which brought a huge upgrade to the mobile side. However, after Apple launched the M series chips, Qualcomm could not sit still and began to increase its investment in the PC field. At the conference this time, Qualcomm announced the name of the new generation of custom ARM cores "Oryon".
As early as January last year, Qualcomm acquired chip startup NVIDIA, the founder of which is Apple's chief architect, who was involved in the design of chips from A7 to A14, and NVIDIA was developing customizable cores and server chips that are also necessary for Qualcomm to enter the PC field.
Qualcomm wants to quickly deploy in the PC field, so it is very necessary to use the self-developed ARM core to improve PC performance. Currently, chips on all Qualcomm mobile platforms are based on ARM's public architecture or the version that has been modified on that basis. ARM's public architecture performance has always lagged behind Apple, which is one of the important reasons Qualcomm acquired NVIDIA. Custom chips allow Qualcomm to have the entire stack and no longer need to rely on ARM's public architecture, which also means Qualcomm can produce its own CPUs like Apple, Intel and AMD.
Qualcomm has tried many times to lay out the PC market and launched the Snapdragon 8cx series of chips, which were used in Windows ARM versions and Chrome notebooks, but did not achieve good results. NVIDIA, a startup acquired by Qualcomm, demonstrated its own Phoenix architecture chip long before it was acquired. The same ARM-based chip improved performance by 50% compared to AMD's Zen 2 architecture chip, while reducing power consumption by 67%. This number of channels seems familiar. Yes, it's the same as beating Intel when the M1 was launched. With the increasing demands of users for notebooks, many users hope that manufacturers can provide a notebook product with strong enough performance and low enough power consumption. Chips built with ARM architecture just meet this demand, which has become one of the important reasons why laptops are starting to come to ARM.
However, it will be a long time. Apple's ability to transition from X86 to ARM architecture so decisively depends primarily on Apple's fully autonomous software and hardware. The highly unified adaptation ecology allows Apple to avoid the negative reaction caused by the transition period to the greatest extent possible.
Qualcomm launched the Oryon core this time, hoping to speed up the ARM notebook process. Although Qualcomm did not disclose more detailed information about the core at the meeting, it is enough to see from Qualcomm PowerPoint that Qualcomm has great expectations for this core. The chip based on this core will be available to OEMs in the second half of this year, and will be officially commercialized in 2024.

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