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posted by janrinok on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-whoosh dept.

'Snapdragon 1000' chip may be designed for PCs from the ground up

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 processor may be intended for PCs, but it's still a half step -- it's really a higher-clocked version of the same processor you'd find in your phone. The company may be more adventurous the next time, though. WinFuture says it has obtained details surrounding SDM1000 (possibly Snapdragon 1000), a previously hinted-at CPU that would be designed from the start for PCs. It would have a relatively huge design compared to most ARM designs (20mm x 15mm) and would consume a laptop-like 12W of power across the entire system-on-a-chip. It would compete directly with Intel's low-power Core processors where the existing 835 isn't really in the ballpark.

By comparison, the Snapdragon 850 has a maximum TDP of just 6.5 Watts.

A reference design for the chip includes 16 GB of LPDDR4X memory, 2 × 128 GB of UFS 2.1 internal storage, and Gigabit WLAN.

See also: Snapdragon-based Chromebook could rival always-connected PCs

Related: Windows 10 PCs Running on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 to Arrive this Year
First ARM Snapdragon-Based Windows 10 S Systems Announced
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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 850 processor will arrive in Windows PCs this year


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by KritonK on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:34PM (1 child)

    by KritonK (465) on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:34PM (#697674)

    Even a Raspberry Pi 2 is an almost decent desktop machine and a good media player. (I got one for the latter purpose, realizing the former, while setting up the machine.) With a faster processor and more memory, I can very well imagine an ARM processor being in the heart of a good Linux system.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:42PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:42PM (#697733)

    I have one of the new Raspberry Pi 3's which runs at 1.2 GHZ and has 1Gb of RAM. At the moment it runs Volumio for me and does it very well, but I did install one of the Ubuntu images available, and it ran absolutely fine.

    It would be a great low-power solution for anyone wanting a basic PC.