Honest question out of sheer ignorance. Could this, in theory, open doors for an OEM to finally start working on a Linux mobile phone and for devs to spin distros for those phones?
That would make me very happy.
I could see Pine64 doing once the chip becomes cheaper
This isn’t a phone focused product, and the thermal envelope is quite a bit larger. It’s meant for laptops, and maybe some tablets will see it. These are Oryon cores from their purchase of Nuvia, and I don’t think a whole lot will transfer over.
Awesome. Hope to see this in pcs from someone like Tuxedo and System76.
I want it to be adopted by Framework
Yes please. Passively cooled Framework with a much longer runtime on battery => awesome.
Throw in upgradable processors too.
I don’t know if that would be possible with SoCs. I think if you were able to create a design where the whole SoC was upgraded, that would be more likely to exist.
Why was their first platform windows? I thought windows had terrible ARM support.
They’ve basically been the biggest partner with Microsoft to try and launch an ARM ecosystem for Windows. The oldest ARM laptops were made by them AFAIK
Tangentially OT:
“Snapdragon X Elite”? Wasn’t the name “Snapdragon” already enough cringe? :)
Snapdragon is a type of flower. It’s a lovely name in my opinion.
Didn’t know about the flower!
Qualcomm didn’t actually choose the name because of it (they choose it because it “sounded fast and fierce”), but now that I know about the flower I’ll think of it instead of snappy dragons whenever I hear the SOC name.
Well that’s stupid 😂
