Behind the Silicon: Snapdragon X

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Me parece que esa es un escenario muy posibie para muchos. particularmente a mí no me interesa el ecosistema Copilot+ / Windows / Microsoft.

Lo que si me interesa es que Qualcomm complete su hoja de ruta de soporte para Linux, pero faltan meses para que eso suceda.

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Esto me hizo recordar casos como estos:








No me quiero imaginar el festín de los hackers cuando consigan vulnerabilidades.

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Parece que este año y el que viene van a ser moviditos con AMD, Intel, Apple, [Nvidia y Mediatek], y la misma Qualcomm, trayendo al mercado nuevas generaciones con tecnología AI optimizada con poco tiempo de diferencia entre sí.

Ya Apple hizo algo por el estilo al sacar una tablet con un M4 menos de un año después de la salida al mercado del M3. Se adelantú algo así como 12 meses a su cadencia normal.



https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/lap ... -this-year

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Más humor como el del perro jugando.

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AMD presenta sus propuestas.

El hecho que en la presentación se ha mencionado al Snapdragon X Elite parece indicar que, al menos AMD, ve en Qualcomm una seria amenaza de competencia en el nicho de las portátiles.



Para mí la guerra de generaciones de los próximos dos años va a ser movidita con esto de la AI y de la comptencia en poder de procesamiento y autonomía de las portátiles.

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El turno de Intel en Computex y pretenden desmentir que ARM es más eficiente que x86/64.

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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Intel is prioritizing low power, perhaps feeling the pressure from Qualcomm’s just-launched Snapdragon X Elite. Several tweaks to Lunar Lake’s design, however, resulted in power savings and performance boosts, including shifting all of the E-cores to a low-power architecture. The Xe2 GPU at the heart of Intel’s “Battlemage” is here. Oh, and hyperthreading? Gone.

Intel recently revealed that its upcoming Lunar Lake chips would be available this fall for Copilot+ AI PCs, but the company waited until Computex to give us more technical details. For one, they'll offer up to 48 TOPs (tera operations per second) of AI performance, thanks to an updated neural processing unit (NPU). In comparison, Intel's previous Meteor Lake chips sported a 10 TOPS NPU, while AMD announced its Ryzen AI 300 chips yesterday with 50 TOPS NPUs. The AI race is on, if you couldn't tell.

Intel will once again have to play catch up in the AI PC space: AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will be available in July alongside Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus. It's unclear when, exactly, Lunar Lake systems will launch this fall. Still, for the Intel faithful, Lunar Lake appears to be a major upgrade. It will also sport a new Xe2 GPU, which will offer 80 percent faster gaming performance than the last generation, as well as an AI accelerator with an additional 67 TOPS of performance. (We're still waiting to see how AMD's new Radeon graphics will compare.)


In a surprising twist, Lunar Lake chips will also feature on-board memory, similar to Apple Silicon. The chips will be available with either 16GB or 32GB of RAM, and just like Apple, you won't be able to add more down the line. By bringing the memory much closer to the processor cores, Intel was able to reduce latency and system power usage by 40 percent. You're out of luck if you actually need more RAM though. You'll have to sit tight for Intel's next chip family, code-named Arrow Lake.

Additionally, Lunar Lake will offer eight cores with revamped performance and efficient cores (P-cores and E-cores). Intel also says the chip features an "advanced low-power island" for efficiently handling background tasks. Thanks to that, along with other optimizations, the company claims battery life is 60 percent better than Meteor Lake.

Clearly, both Intel and AMD are going to do whatever it takes to combat Qualcomm's Copilot+ hardware. Those mobile chips are inherently more power efficient — they reportedly get over 20 hours of battery life on Copilot+ Surface devices (though we haven't tested them yet).

When it comes to connectivity, Lunar Lake will offer the updated standards you'd expect: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, PCIe Gen5 and Thunderbolt 4. (It's strange that Intel isn't committing to Thunderbolt 5 yet, since it plans to launch that standard later this year.)


Given just how far off Lunar Lake actually is, Intel didn't have more information to share about specific chip models or deeper specs. But judging from the company's benchmarks, released during a media briefing ahead of Computex, it'll should be significantly faster than Meteor Lake while running Stable Diffusion, completing 20 iterations in 5.8 seconds compared to 20.9 seconds. While it does draw a few more watts of power, the increased speed should make up for that.

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Críticas a Intel por la forma en que presentaron sus proyecciones de mejoras en el rendimiento de los nuevos CPUs.

3:40 Intel's New CPU

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Until now, the Snapdragon X Elite SoCs have only been available on the market in Windows on ARM PCs. At this year’s Embedded Open Source Summit a few weeks ago, Qualcomm explained its efforts to make the SoC available for Linux as well.

An article by Qualcomm showcases, which functions have already been incorporated into the mainline kernels 6.8 and 6.9 in collaboration with the ARM specialist Linaro and what is planned for 6.10 and 6.11 and describes the plans for the next six months. Detailed technical information on this is provided in a video by a developer who works on the Linux kernel for Qualcomm.

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It is quite conceivable that an ARM notebook from TUXEDO will be under your Christmas tree in 2024. However, there are still too many pieces of the hardware, software and delivery capability puzzle missing to even begin to set a release date. TUXEDO for ARM will come, but we don’t yet know exactly when.