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'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.
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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 850 processor will arrive in Windows PCs this year
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:48PM (1 child)
I hate Qualcomm with a passion. Sure, they occasionally make good things, but I have always hated them for their reliance on H1-B labor even though they're smack-dab in the middle of a big city with a lot of American engineers looking for work.
Anyway, I interviewed with them twice. Here's how they went.
The first interview was for a hardware debugging position, so of course at least one White interviewer had to be involved in the discussion. The other two were Oriental and Indian. During that interview all of them had a strange fixation for logic analyzers. I told them no, I have never used a logic analyzer, but I have used 4-channel oscilloscopes for analyzing logic signals, sniffers with spectrum and vector network analyzers, custom test equipment, and anything else that blooped or bleeped; in both the RF and optical domains. I also reminded them that yes, I believe I am capable of quickly learning how to use a logic analyzer. At the end of the interview they told me they were looking for somebody who had experience using a logic analyzer, and that I wasn't going to cut it.
The second interview went much worse. It was for a less-prestigious position. 15 minutes before the interview I got a call from an Asian lady asking if I was looking for a job (at another company for a totally different type of position) and I said that of course I was. After declining the offer I went into my interview and was greeted by an Asian lady who sounded exactly like the Asian lady who had called me minutes earlier. The other two interviewers were Indian, and asked me a variety of questions regarding my resume. The Oriental woman looked ridiculously disinterested in being there in the first place, as if somebody told her to be there for female diversity reasons and would much rather have been fucking off on the internet. I explained that I did programming for the Kinect but decided not to continue because the Kinect was a discontinued product. The Indian said, "Oh, so you unplugged it from your TV and that is why you didn't want to program it?" The other Indian, who clearly knew better English, visibly facepalmed. The interview ended with the dumber Indian telling me, "well, it seems from your resume that you are overqualified for this position." Then why the fuck did you invite me in to interview for this position in the first place given that my resume was the first thing you saw before you ever met me?!
Both experiences have given me even more of a seething hatred of not only Indians, but Qualcomm. I wonder how much more efficient they'd be if they just hired American engineers and shelled out the extra 10K a year each for the quality and language proficiency boost. Indians, like other immigrants, are nepotist cancers which should never be allowed to hold a cultural majority in your American or European organizations. You could say that I'm just salty because I wasn't hired. No, I interviewed for a lot of places throughout the years and wasn't hired, my ego can survive something like that. What I am angry about is that it's obvious that they blatantly wasted my fucking time. There is a shit-ton of better-paying work around here with less incompetent people running the show, so don't treat my like I should be begging for an interview with your fucks. Go fuck yourselves, and a good bath with some soap wouldn't hurt either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:55PM
Long-winded stupidity is still stupid.