It seems that Qualcomm is planning on releasing yet another dedicated chipset for Windows 10 laptops, being dubbed as the Snapdragon 1000. The chip will go head to head with low-end Intel models such as the Core Y and Core U series.
The Snapdragon 1000 is projected to be the follow-up to the recently announced Snapdragon 850, Qualcomm’s first official dedicated chipset for mobile PCs. The SDM1000 is reported to have a 6.5W power draw and a total power draw of 12W. The currently leaked test platform shows the chipset paired with 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, to 128GB UFS Flash drives, an 802.11ad gigabit WiFi, LTE, and a new power management controller.
The chipset’s size is also relatively larger than the Snapdragon 850, 20x15mm (SDM1000) vs 12x12mm (SDM850). It’s also revealed to have a socketed processor, which means it has potential to be upgraded or replaced. This is quite a surprise as most, if not all, laptops have soldered processors. Apart from that, the chip is expected to be using ARM’s Cortex-A76 architecture with 7nm processing.
Performance is expected to be around the levels of Intel’s U-series processor although at much lower power draws and a smaller package.
source: winfuture
via: arstechnica
