Apple Caught! Snapdragon 8 Elite The Fastest Mobile SOC

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Apple Caught! Snapdragon 8 Elite The Fastest Mobile SOC

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Qualcomm say their new mobile SOC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, is the fastest mobile SOC. We only have their word for it right now, but I am inclined to believe them.

Well done Qualcomm! It was an anomaly that Apple, who are not SOC specialists, had the fastest SOC for so long: in nature, it is the specialist animals that have the highest "specifications", not the generalist ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Q ... ite_(2024)
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Re: Apple Caught! Snapdragon 8 Elite The Fastest Mobile SOC

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Hopefully this will be resolved before it disrupts SOC supplies, but ARM have told Qualcomm that they're withdrawing their licenses!

The dispute has been going on for around 2 years, after Qualcomm bought a company that has more ARM licenses than itself, and is using those licenses which, for some reason, ARM don't want them to have.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsof ... e-oct-2024
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