Qualcomm is working on Snapdragon 850 chipset for Windows computers
Qualcomm partnered with Microsoft for official Windows 10 support on the Snapdragon 835, which was extended to the 845 chip a year later. It seems that these Windows-on-ARM portable computers have proven successful enough to warrant a dedicated chip.
The Snapdragon 850 isn’t an entirely new chip – it’s a faster 845 – and it is aimed squarely at Windows ultra portables. It features 8 cores as before with the “big” cluster clocked higher than the phone version.
The Kryo 385 Gold cores (based on Cortex-A75) reach as high as 2.96 GHz, a couple of hundred megahertz more than phone chips. This is mostly due to the improved thermals of the larger ultra portable computers.
Lenovo is working on a device dubbed ELZE1, aka Europe, which will be built by Compal. HP has partnered with Quanta on the Chimera 2, while HP will be selling its Snapdragon 850-based computer to carriers in the US, the UK and Australia.
Reader comments
- Moj
what you said was good and really easy to understand for normal and not tech guys BUT there is a huge problem: even by re-coding from scratch it is impossible to gain 2X performance let alone 4X~8X! even heavily modified codes(like what i do with g...
- 10 Jun 2018
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- Kangal
Well, let's just start by comparing them: Intel (6th gen) Atom X7-Z8750 - 4 cores / +0 threads (x86-64, Bay Trail/Pentium-line) Intel (8th gen) Core i7-8650U - 4 cores / +4 threads (x86-64, Coffee Lake + SMT) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 - 4 core...
- 05 Jun 2018
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