Qualcomm Says it Can Beat Apple's M1 Chip

hi there my name is gary sims and this is gary explains how qualcomm are pumping up the retric and they're claiming that during next year they're going to release a snapdragon processor that can compete with the best of apple's processors so if you want to find out more please let me explain [Music] now as you probably know apple has started to move away from intel chips in its macbooks and its imax over to chips it's designed itself that are based on the arm instruction set and the m1 is the first generation of that chip and we find it in the macbooks and the recently announced imacs of course apple has a long history of designing its own chips and the iphone since the a7 has an in-house designed processor inside of it now apple can do that because they have an architectural license from arm which allows them to design their own clean room designs of processors as long as they stick to the technicalities of the arm instruction set architecture now qualcomm also sells processes that you find inside of the leading android devices and it too wants to make its way into this new laptop stroke desktop era that is coming about for the arm architecture up until now qualcomm has been relying on the cpu designs that it gets directly from arm it licenses them from arm and they are the pro the cores that you find for example in the snapdragon 888 and so on however things changed a little bit this year because qualcomm bought a company called nuvia i have a whole video here on this channel about that but basically nuvia was a company that was set up by some ex apple employees some ex google people and their aim was to design a processor that was good for data centers based again on the same arm architecture so they also had an architectural license from arm and they decided that they wanted to design processes for the data center now corecon bought that company for 1.4 billion dollars now qualcomm are not in the data center in the cloud processor kind of market it did try at one point to get in there but that's really not where it's going so having made this purchase for 1.4 billion dollars what's it going to do with it well it's been revealed it's going to put it into laptops so i'm sure we will find this technology at some point in smartphones but the first place we're going to see it is inside of laptops that means it will be going head-to-head with apple's m1 processor and with whatever comes after the m1 processor now qualcomm are fairly confident they are going to be able to design a laptop chip that beats apple's offerings and therefore offers the best in class in terms of performance and the best in class in terms of battery efficiency now the reason why they're confident about that is because the ex apple employees were actually the people that worked on apple's chips including on the m1 itself now don't ask me about intellectual property and whether there are you know but let's just say they're using their experience of designing chips for apple and now they're designing them for qualcomm and of course these laptops will be running windows specifically windows 11 but not on an intel or amd processor but on a qualcomm processor very much like the surface pro x is using a snapdragon processor today so what does that mean for the relationship between core core on arm well for the immediate future as i said not really much is going to change because 75 of qualcomm's revenue comes directly from selling processors for smartphones and certainly for this year next year and i'm guessing even the year after that that's going to remain exactly the same even if eventually this nuvia design does trickle down into the flagship devices certainly qualcomm will keep on using arms designs for its lower series the 700 series the 600 series the 400 series and so on also here's an interesting quote from qualcomm's ceo about its relationship with arm if arm which we've had a relationship with for years eventually develops a cpu that's better than what we can build ourselves then we always have the option to license from arm and of course that's how it is when you're licensing designs this year maybe you want the design next year you don't or whatever and that's certainly been true for example with arms mali gpus mediatek chips have used mali gpus and then suddenly they might start using imagination's power vr gpus and then they switch back again to using mali so really when you are licensing you can pick what you want now if qualcomm think they can have a better laptop chip than what they can get from arm then they're going to go with that one interesting question though is because nuvia's background is trying to design a chip for the data center for the cloud are core com planning on getting into that market the ceo said no definitely not however they are open to licensing their cause to actually people who want to build processes for the data center and that's really really interesting because that now means that qualcomm itself could go into the ip licensing market which is something it hasn't done up until now any technology that is designed itself or acquired it's used inside of its own products so that means in the future arm will also be licensing its iap but so could call combi licensing its own ip for arm architecture type chips so when are we going to see this amazing m1 beating chip well probably it's going to be out to the manufacturers as its partners the laptop makers okay sometime in the second half of 2022 so about a year away from now and then of course we're going to see products actually for sale a few months after that when it will be announced not quite sure they could announce it in the middle of 2022 or they could save it until they have their snapdragon tech summit at the end of 2022 which means the devices would become immediately available at the beginning of 2023 however it turns out it's going to be interesting to see somebody tried to go toe to toe with apple with its own in-house processors okay that's it my name is gary sims this is gary explains i really hope you enjoyed this video please do make sure you follow me on twitter at gary explains do subscribe to the channel i suppose well that's it i'll see in the next one you

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 05 2021