The flame returns...
Some people prefer absolute silence and there is no maintenance required being fanless.
That’s not the point, all those OEMs and not one considered to make an X Elite fanless. It’s not that they don’t want to but they can’t.
It’s not meant for fanless designs and by clocking low to counter the heat it would not reached marketing expectations.
I wonder if the rumoured Purwa part would be suitable for fanless designs?
I watched the MS Event keynote. The launch of Snapdragon X Elite/X Plus was more spectacular than I expected. New Prism emulator for WoA. 20% better battery life than M3 Macbook Air claim. So many designs from all major OEMs.
But I am more interested in the road ahead.
Gerard Williams is set to do a talk at Hot Chips 2024 (in August). Looking forward to that.
This slide was leaked recently:
So X ELITE G2 will be coming sometime in mid 2025.
IMHO Oryon V2 or Pegasus (whatever the core ends up being called) should be a major redesign like Zen3 or Zen5. Simply being an evolution of Phoenix/Oryon V1 won't suffice. Qualcomm will need a ~50% performance uplift to stay competitive with M5/Zen6. They are already lagging behind the M4's ST by 30%, and will be at a similar disadvantage vs Strix/Zen5.
They have also have room to make improvements to power by a clock regression. If you look at this graph, the power has increased by roughly 33% for that final 10% frequency:
Hopefully, Snapdragon X2/Oryon V2 generation will be good. Addition of E-cores, 3nm node, 2nd gen Oryon P-core, potential support for ARMv9/SVE/SME/SSVE and new Adreno 8xx GPU architecture.