'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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @05:21PM
ARM chips are pretty good these days, although GPU support is pretty shitty if you care about being FOSS at all. libhybris means you can use all the hardware with the blobby Android drivers, and aarch64 is 1st tier on quite a few distros. The main thing missing from most ARM boards is ECC (very necessary if you're running off of SD or eMMC) and memory support/capacity/bandwidth. More expandability would be nice too - a good bare bones board with a couple PCI slots and a real SATA or M.2 port would be nice. They're fast and cheap enough CPU-wise that there aren't any issues using them as a budget replacement for traditional "box" computers and all those cores really give them an edge over the low-power intel chips.