Qualcomm has announced their new Oryon CPUs, boasting ARM speeds faster than Apple and Intel’s x86. They didn’t provide any concrete proof that is does, but it exists. Supposedly.
Takeaways
- The whole event was filmed using a phone and it looks terrible.
- There was a ton of
“yes-men”Snapdragon Insiders in the front row being obnoxious. - Qualcomm is making a big push with their partners: Microsoft, Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Facebook, HP, and more.
- Qualcomm doubles down on on-device AI. Why wouldn’t they? AI boom, Windows 12, and more.
- Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X Elite (Oryon) CPUs, boasting a large performance boost over competing Apple/Intel hardware. You’ll just have to wait until next year and take their word for it because there was no demos, a bunch of fake graphs, and not even a glimpse of it on real hardware doing real person things.
- Qualcomm is vying for Microsoft’s attention in particular. Only (prerecorded) sit down interview with Christiano was with Satya Nadella.
- The Windows on ARM (WOA) exclusivity deals ends with Qualcomm next year. If the Oryon CPUs fail, it’s going to be disastrous for Qualcomm and good for upcoming competitors like Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AMD.
- Pavan Davuluri from Microsoft showed up to beg developers to use NPUs.
- Sound technology… yay.
- Snapdragon Seamless links USB (?) connected devices together, as long as they can run a Snapdragon processor. Only showed Windows and Android. It might also use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, but no elaboration on how this technically works.