Qualcomm said that NUVIA-based technology Arm chips will land on PCs
During Qualcomm’s recent earnings call, its CEO, Cristiano Amon, introduced the NUVIA team and its future development plans for Qualcomm’s Arm processors. Qualcomm currently has a Snapdragon computing platform for Windows PCs and Chromebooks, but the user experience is not so good.
Last year Qualcomm bought the startup NUVIA for $1.4 billion, hoping to use its team and design Arm core to provide Windows PC with stronger performance and higher efficiency. According to Fool, Cristiano Amon expressed his satisfaction with the design of the third-generation Snapdragon 8cx when responding to industry analysts’ questions about the PC market and Snapdragon chips, and confirmed that the processor was designed by the NUVIA team is under development. It is expected to be available in late 2023.
It is said that the Arm architecture processor designed by NUVIA will provide samples to Qualcomm’s partners in the second half of 2022, and the situation involving performance may come out later. It has been said that the microarchitecture developed by the Nuvia team will be extended to mobile, automotive, and data centers in due course, and it is believed that it can eventually be used to build high-performance PCs.
Qualcomm has been providing Snapdragon platform-based solutions for laptops since 2017 and has partnered with Microsoft to do a lot of work for the Windows-on-Arm ecosystem. After several years of efforts, it seems that the results are not very effective, and the market share has not increased significantly. On the one hand, not all Windows programs can run perfectly on Arm architecture-based systems, which affects the user experience. On the other hand, the Snapdragon platform only provides limited performance compared to the x86 platform, the price is not low, and its appeal is limited. If compared with Apple’s Mac products that are also based on the Arm architecture, the gap is even greater.
