Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed

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The CPU war we expected: Intel vs AMD The CPU war we got: Apple vs Qualcomm What an era we are living in

this sort of competition is always good for the consumer. Great to have another player in the ring.

The success of Qualcomm is going to depend on how much Microsoft, or a joint effort can improve emulation. Apple had a very good emulator out of the gate while they transititioned.

I'm sure Qualcomns partners will have no problem making it feel like a Celeron chip from 2006.

Now Microsoft MUST make their own Rosetta though, for this to work. The problem with Windows on ARM is retrocompatibility. Without programs no one will move to ARM, and devs won't either, making this problem worse and worse over time

The advancing of technology never ceases to amaze me. Simply incredible.

You're right; this is good for the consumers. The competition game is based on who or which company can deliver what is best and consume less. It's all about innovation guys. Let the show continue and for sure I'll stay tuned.

Hard to say for sure right now that Qualcomm is outpacing Apple. Apple is selling M3 Powered Macbooks right now while Qualcomm is still pretty much selling a “promise”. By the time retail devices/laptops containing the Elites come out, the M4 will be knocking on their doors. And we still have the issue of poor Windows on ARM optimization and the difficult task of convincing developers to switch away from x86. Microsoft has been trying for more than a decade to make Windows an ARM a viable alternative but they still haven’t gotten it off the ground. I’m not holding my breath on this one.

Regardless of what side you're on, competition is great for consumers

I just finished watching your video entitled "The Rise and Stagnation of IBM". You should do a video about how RCA was almost destroyed back in the 1970's when it's head office decided that they were going to go toe-to-toe with IBM in the computer market, a market which RCA had never even had a presence in and had no expertise in.

I'm working in the cloud industry and we are seeing also an big increase of ARM-based processors for servers usage. Amazon has already his arm-based processors who are used inside theirs data centers. But i think that RISC-V is completely underated right now.

Its funny all these companies had talent to design efficient chips but never did until Apple did. Most of them were chasing benchmarks but never thought laptops can be used without spinning a fan.

The problem with Qualcomm's new chips is that they aren't in any devices right now. So, even IF Qualcomm has a benchmark chart stating this or that, Apple's chips are in devices that people have in their hands today. People are getting real world benefits that I don't think we'll see with Qualcomm chips until Windows catches up in the ARM software conversion department. Qualcomm isn't really outpacing anyone here and Windows is late af to the ARM game.

Considering how much power the last few generations of AMD and Intel chips have been consuming... This is very welcome news!!

Can't wait to see where this new competition will take us in the XR industry. The power efficiency of those new chips is really something else.

Outpaced? Man, Qualcomm's new chip hasn't been even shipped yet.

The Qualcomm announcement was a paper launch (concerning Snapdragon X Elite) while the Apple "answer" was not. Snapdragon X Elite is already losing to the M3 family when we consider both power consumption and performance, and next year Apple will probably launch, not just announce, the M4 family. I'm not surprised, but I want more competition against Apple, that's the best way to make Apple do an even more excellent job in their chips.

As a embedded software engineer who works very close to the metal predominately on ARM chips, this is very awesome news. This performance will spill over to other stuff in the coming years. So i dont have to insert assembly code here and there.

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