Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift
by singhkays on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:21PM
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> They won't get there with reference designs from ARM.
This nails it! I blogged about how the expected Geekbench scores for Nuvia were better than M1
- https://singhkays.com/blog/arm-cpu-faster-than-apple-m1/
Nuvia was aiming for the server space but Qualcomm probably saw an opportunity to leapfrog many generations of in-house design and catch up to A and M series chips from Apple.
For reference - Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 888 flagship lacks behind 2019 Apple A13
Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift
by com2kid on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:09PM
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As an aside, on mobile your site has ads on top and bottom of the browser window, leaving a bit of room in the middle to read the content which is just as often ads as your own words.
Reading that article was a distinctly unpleasant experience.
If I had to guess, Nuvia's expertise will be used to optimize Qualcomm's ARM, Adreno and Hexagons for the next generation of Snapdragon cx. Qualcomm and Microsoft dipped their toe into this market and now that Apple is all-in, they need an answer to the M1. They won't get there with reference designs from ARM.
But once they're producing optimized ARMs for SoC apps processors, who's to say that they couldn't re-enter the server space?