Has there been such a thing as a NVL Halo chip rumored? I know there's that massive CPU (16P 32E), but I haven't heard anything about a huge iGPU in NVL, have I missed something?
I just wish Qualcomm/OEMs were doing a better job of making these X Elite based laptops Linux compatible. I have few doubts at this point that X Elite Gen 2 will be extremely capable chips, perhaps even as good as Apple Silicon, and I'd absolutely be willing to endure some growing pains with...
The most likely thing IMO is Panther Cove was initially meant to be ready for PTL, but missed some development targets and was pushed to NVL. I expect they didn't bother changing the development codename but will change the consumer facing one.
Same IPC doesn't necessarily mean same performance. For example, Skymont is already quite close to Lion Cove in IPC, but it doesn't clock anywhere near as high so it ends up a long way off in pure performance.
Even if that is probably the eventual goal (and Arctic Wolf is the first step in that...
To be fair it makes sense to pick out the "flaws" of the design that is currently trailing. Oryon, especially in 8 Elite, is impressive but in single core performance and efficiency it's still trailing Apple's P-core.
There's also always the question of how high you can push clocks before it...
Yeah for this generation this is expected but if no further potential legal issues arise, I could see them expand the use of Oryon to more tiers next year (if they had such designs being prepped just in case, at least).
N3P + latest ARM ISA + GPU improvements + another set of Oryon...
So, with the court case (for now) falling Qualcomm's way, I expect they'll have the confidence to expand their use of Oryon even more starting now.
But one thing I'm curious about, the court case seems to affirm that not only is Qualcomm's ARM v8 license absolutely still valid, their ARM v9...
I actually think getting X Elite Gen 1 out the door as soon as possible was a good idea regardless of whether it made for a compelling device for the average user at that point or now. For one because Oryon had already been pushed back a few times so it was high time to deliver something...
Is there an actual source for that or is this just the usual dooming? 20A wasn't even meant to be library complete and there were only ever a handful of SKUs supposed to even exist on it, the notion that that's the node which will power PTL, CWF and the first cutting edge customer foundry...
I hope at the very least it's on the same node(s) as 8 Elite this time. If it is they'll definitely try to have it compete with M5 (and maybe M5 Pro) tho Windows will be a bottleneck to that. Fingers crossed actual Linux support will be ready near launch for the 2nd gen...
Just to be sure, is 20% speculation from you or was something like that said by Intel or new reports? As I remember the initial reports only said Broadcom deemed 18A to not be ready for HVM (which wasn't very surprising either since that report was several months out from HVM even per Intel's...
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