What will the future chip that Qualcomm intends to put in front of Apple processors look like? Infusion specialist Koba Wojciechowski provided some information on this. under the codename mother-in-law It hides a system on a 12-core chip to compete with the Apple M1. Expected in 2024 (remember the M1 date from 2020), it will provide 8 fast cores and 4 low power cores.
The first will be based on the heart Phoenix Developed by Nuvia, a company acquired by Qualcomm in 2021 and at the center of an ongoing lawsuit Between ARM and Qualcomm. For the low-power segment, there is nothing official and Qualcomm can easily integrate new architecture such as licensed ARM cores.
In other news: Qualcomm is working on a 2024 desktop chip codenamed “Hamoa” with up to 12 (8P+4E) in-house (based on a Nuvia Phoenix design), cache/cache configuration as M1 and explicit support for dGPUs The performance is “very promising” according to my sources.
– Kuba Wojciechowski⚡ (@Za_Raczke) November 6, 2022
If the tweet remains short enough, this indicates that performance will be promising and that clear support for dedicated GPUs will be in the game. This specific point is very interesting: Qualcomm has historically relied on its Adreno GPUs for its Snapdragons, and Apple only offers its own GPUs along with its own M1 and M2 chips.
Support for traditional GPUs (in PCI-Express) means Qualcomm intends to pair its CPUs with chips from other brands, an important point in the PC ecosystem. To perform, it will take some time, unfortunately. But remember that when Nuvia was working on its own CPU, the company announced better performance than Apple’s A13 and results that beat AMD’s Ryzen 7 4700U. It is hoped that Qualcomm’s acquisition will make it possible to see more: in 2024, Apple will likely release the A18 and architecture Zain 2 The life of the AMD processor will be about 5 years…
