News Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips

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Qualcomm's Arm-based PC chips will skip the second generation, next-gen Snapdragon X processors will feature Oryon 3.

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This move to lower the barrier to entry for Snapdragon-powered computers will likely help the company to push into the PC market, especially as it targets $4 billion in PC sales by 2029.

I think general terms like PC Market, and PC sales aren't suitable for these devices. They are only mobile devices (yes, I get that a laptop is technically a PC), have no discrete GPU's and don't offer that much upgradeability. If they don't make desktop chips, that's a serious amount of laptop sales needed to reach those lofty goals. I'm not sure the market is that big. And I don't think AI is gonna make it happen either.

We shall wait and see!

 

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I think general terms like PC Market, and PC sales aren't suitable for these devices. They are only mobile devices (yes, I get that a laptop is technically a PC), have no discrete GPU's and don't offer that much upgradeability. If they don't make desktop chips, that's a serious amount of laptop sales needed to reach those lofty goals. I'm not sure the market is that big. And I don't think AI is gonna make it happen either.

We shall wait and see!

The lack of a discrete GPU is mostly irrelevant in the laptop market. The real interesting thing is that they are mass manufacturing this CPU with the full expectation that there's going to be a lot of demand (millions of devices). These things don't run Windows! Windows *can* run on them but would need to be a special build and the even tinier niche that is "ARM software for Windows" means that there wouldn't be much in the way of available software. Non-x86 laptops are a very niche market.

That means these devices are all going to run Linux. Android and ChromeOS are the likely targets but perhaps Qualcomm has some sort of desktop Linux plans? Wild speculation: Maybe they have big plans with Valve for their next VR headset? I wouldn't think Valve would take such a huge risk with ARM though (all their existing stuff is x86) unless there's some fantastic x86 emulation feature that Qualcomm hasn't announced yet.

Edit: They could also partner with Meta for their next VR headset.

 

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I think general terms like PC Market, and PC sales aren't suitable for these devices. They are only mobile devices (yes, I get that a laptop is technically a PC), have no discrete GPU's and don't offer that much upgradeability. If they don't make desktop chips, that's a serious amount of laptop sales needed to reach those lofty goals. I'm not sure the market is that big. And I don't think AI is gonna make it happen either.

We shall wait and see!

I think it would be useful to go into gaming laptops, especially with Proton on AArch64. All it would really take is higher power envelopes and having the PCIe lanes for dGPUs, and the driver support