Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/26/hot-chips-2024-qualcomms-oryon-core/

by luyu_wu • 2 years ago

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xattt• 2 years ago

Will the Chips and Cheese posts ever stop? I can only be nerd-sniped so many times!

noelwelsh• 2 years ago

If, like me, you are interested in CPUs but not keeping up with the latest news you might wonder what the significance of this is. The linked article doesn't really give any context.

This earlier article is, I think, better for a more general audience:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/07/09/qualcomms-oryon-core-a...

The summary is that this is a laptop class CPU. Samsung are currently shipping it in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (the X Elite configuration). This is a new market for Qualcomm, who are mainly known for mobile device CPUs.

unwind• 2 years ago

Thanks. It was really hard to figure out the basics, I had to google around to learn that the Oryon is an Arm core, implementing v8.7-A of the ISA to be specific.

luyu_wu• 2 years ago

Thanks for giving some context! I should've done it yesterday, but was a bit busy when the article popped up.

wtallis• 2 years ago

It's not a new market for Qualcomm. They shipped three generations of Snapdragon 8cx chips for laptops, along with various other SoCs intended for Windows-based laptops and tablets. What's new here is that they now have a CPU core that allows them to actually compete with mainstream Intel and AMD laptop CPUs, so they scored a lot more design wins than their earlier SoCs.

Apart from the CPU cores, the rest of the Snapdragon X Elite chips seem to be IP blocks from outdated generations of Qualcomm's phone SoCs, so the Oryon CPU cores are the most interesting part of the SoC by far.

tedunangst• 2 years ago

Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design

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