Qualcomm to Release New ARM-Based CPU to Compete with Apple’s M-Series Chips
Nov. 17, 2021WhileApple’s in-house M-series chipsets, including the first-gen Apple M1 and the latest M1 Pro and M1 Max,continue to impress userswith their capabilities, global chip makers are trying to play catch with the Cupertino giant. Now, Qualcomm has recently announced to launch new ARM-based chipsets for laptops that will deliver comparable performance as theApple M1 chipsets.
The chipset will be developed by Nuvia, a silicon-based company that Qualcomm acquired for $1.4 billion earlier this year, as per reports. The Nuvia team is led by three former Apple employees who worked on Apple’s A-series processors for iPhones and iPads. Moreover, the former Apple engineers, before joining Qualcomm, were reportedly testing a “Phoenix” SoC prototype that was capable of delivering twice the performance than that of the most efficient x86 CPU core for laptops within 4.5W of power.
However, to compete with Apple’s M-series chipsets, Qualcomm’s upcoming chipset needs to deliver massive GPU performance. And to achieve this, the company said that it willscale up its Adreno GPU designto make the chipset more powerful in terms of graphical performance. Qualcomm also added that the new chipset will deliver sustained performance on battery, delivering similar performance as the latest M1 Pro and M1 Max-powered MacBook models.
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