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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

This will get RISC-V probably a big boost. Maybe this was not the smartest move for ARMs long term future. But slapping Qualcomm is always a good idea, its just such a shitty company.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

True, I just wished RISCV laptops were slightly more developed and available. As of now, the specs aren't there yet in those devices that are available. (8core@2Ghz, but only 16GB Ram, too little for me)

Kind of a bummer, was coming up to a work laptop upgrade soon and was carefully watching the Linux support for Snapdragon X because I can't bring myself to deal with Apple shenanigans, but like the idea of performance and efficiency. The caution with which I approached it stems from my "I don't really believe a fucking thing Qualcomm Marketing says" mentality, and it seems holding off and watching was the right call. Oh well, x86 for another cycle, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I think, I would go for a ARM Tuxedo PC in your position.

Oh, still some time needed for that as well, but you can see the progress (a lot is working now at kernel 6.11)

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Where-are-we-with-our-TUXEDO-ARM-Notebook.tuxedo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

ARM CPU prob means that at some point you'll get stuck with a kernel limit.

But did you imply you would buy (now) a RISC-V laptop if it had more RAM & cores?

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