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Message started by Oldfeller on 05/31/18 at 14:53:59

Title: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 05/31/18 at 14:53:59

Over the last 4 days Microsoft and Qualcomm have announced the Qualcomm 850, 900 and 950 and 1000 chipsets all of which are intended for doing the Windows on ARM in laptops --these are supposed to be shipping in time for a 2018 Christmas sell through. 950 and 1000 are big core heavy SoCs, they are intended to run off of wall socket power or off of large laptop batteries instead of cell phone sized portable batteries. The last two listed are Core i5 beaters, verging up into the low Core i7 range on the Qualcomm 1000 SoC.

This will be "gen 2" 7nm full production product designs, built at TSMC and/or at Samsung using a cooperative "same same" design concept. Somebody is thinking a whole lot of these things will be needed by Christmas time, in other words ....... by spreading the production any ramp up bobbles from one vendor will not impede the total roll out significantly.

Needless to say, Intel is not pleased with any of these guys as Intel cannot compete at all with these products -- not for "always on" nor for energy efficiency nor for long battery life nor for cost, especially not for cost.

Yep, Chipzilla is functionally rotting in place while still standing ..... very very sad. (and terribly messy and smelly)

http://https://i0.wp.com/zombieportraits.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/T-rex-Zombie-dinosaur.jpg?resize=500%2C351 this is how Intel feels about the whole thing

Anyway, the first product is announced and production trial lots have been being run, so ARM is now free to discuss the A-76 generation and to take credit for what is in essence new advances in ARM technology over the A-75 generation, a generation that frankly has never really shipped as a complete set yet as the Chinese got caught up in pasting some A-75 components on to existing A-73 CPU designs to get similar but cheaper results by using relatively more AI and larger Machine Learning (bigger adder blocks) and a lot $$$ less spent on higher license cost CPU advancements). licensing on the mash up was a lot cheaper doing it that way as opposed to doing it the right way

..... yes, ARM advanced so quick it is replacing parts of itself before it could even fully build out the A-75 generation of designs .....

http://https://liliputing-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/a76_02-680x351.jpg

ARM Cortex-A76

The new CPU architecture isn’t just about bringing higher performance: ARM says it’s also 40 percent more efficient, which could lead to longer battery life in smartphones and tablets as well.

And ARM says Cortex-A76 is also designed to bring up to 4 times better performance for artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks.

ARM notes that Cortex-A76 processors manufactured using a 7nm process should be able to run at speeds of 3 GHz or higher, and the company is promising “laptop-class performance.”

Of course, any chip that’s already use in a laptop technically offers laptop-class performance, and there are already a bunch of Chromebooks and a handful of Windows 10 devices with processors based on older ARM designs. But they’re not very fast compared to models with anything higher than an Intel Celeron chip.

Here’s what’s new: not only is ARM promising a 35-percent performance boost over its older Cortex-A75 design, the company says Cortex-A76 will offer twice the performance of an older ARM Cortex-A73 processor. And you know what uses a modified Cortex-A73 design? The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip that’s used in every Windows 10 on ARM notebook or tablet released to date.

So next year we might plausibly see Windows 10 on ARM devices that can offer up to twice the performance of current models.

ARM Mali-G76

ARM’s latest graphics processor design offers both a 30 percent boost in energy efficiency and a 30 percent improvement in performance density. The company says it’s also 2.7 times faster at machine learning tasks than the Mali-G72 design.

ARM Mali-V76

The new video processor has to handle 4 times the bandwidth of its predecessor in order to play 8K video at 60 frames per second. So ARM made changes to increase throughput.

The VPU is also capable of encoding 8K video, but only at 30 frames per second so far.

Also note that brand new larger AI and ML accelerator blocks are available from ARM now as well, but these are spec'd and sold separately from the SoC chipsets as that is how the Chinese are buying and using them.

It is very possible to mix and match components using older CPU designs that are simply boosted by a more modern GPU or VPU and have some added AI and ML capabilities from an adder block.

These inexpensive but powerful "Chinese mixes" will come out fairly quickly from Huawei and others, intending to leap frog Qualcomm and Samsung's existing midrange to lower top end chipsets for a quick short term win as implementation speed counts for a lot in the Oriental phone market, it surely does.

This ARM release counts for a "complete re-imaging" of the A-75 generation, prompted by large strong AI and ML advancements as well as some profound change in 7nm lithography capabilities.

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 05/31/18 at 17:32:14

BIG BIG topic, needs a good bit of room to even announce it completely. These are 3 master pages with multiple sub-pages for each of the items, so expect it to take you an hour just to scan it all good, much less to understand in any depth. READ the first line of the insert that follows, stop, digest it and read it again.

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/12785/arm-cortex-a76-cpu-unveiled-7nm-powerhouse

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12834/arm-announces-the-mali-g76-scaling-up-bifrost

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12835/arm-announces-maliv76-video-processor-planning-for-the-8k-video-future

Anandtech has come through with the very first in-depth look at the new A76 generation. Above are three large reference posts that will take you a half an hour each just to look at and to go to all the sub-pages that are listed per topic in a drop down bar that you will find immediately below the main title and above the first graphic.

This is a good example of the use of a mobile phone style drop down bar (and how phone tech handles very complex things in general). This drop down bar leads you in series to 5 different pages of in-depth analysis on each item of the A-76 CPU product generation. The pages 1-5 do build on each other, so please view them in order for the very best learning effect.

Wow. It is a brave new world out there ---- Apple has been implementing and building on this stuff as their A-12 processor and you can see where Apple got a lot of the headline busting stuff they are rolling out right now. It is all predicated on 7nm though, real working at full speed (3 GHZ and up) 2nd gen 7nm lithography, so now you see why Apple was so adamant with TSMC that 2nd generation 7nm had to happen, ASAP.

Apple spent a ton of money and MADE it happen, kudos goes to Apple for that.

And yes, Intel is now toast. Apple will serve them up first with a baked Apple on top unless Qualcomm gets there first with the big sharp-pointed rotisserie skewer. Then the race to make niche specific laptop chipsets rolls over to Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei, ---- and all the rest of the hockey stick boys eventually.

http://androidtechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/e942b17caeb7b666eac647f58c7ae878.png

Quick take away ---- it is all drastically better stuff now, main cores are much beefier and faster, graphics are leaping up past television set hi rez levels, and AI & Machine Learning is still going up by multiples of 3-10x yearly. The energy sipping A-55 little cores are still good to go and will continue in use, which is a good thing since a WHOLE BUNCH of 8 core A-55 "littles only" phones had just come out this spring at the older 10 and 12nm lithography levels.

Apple is paying out really big bucks for new 7nm lithography lines that everyone else gets to use in the 3rd year as TSMC will then own them. Apple is still playing leapfrog with all the others every other year, but the others do play catch up a year later and Apple has to leapfrog again just to stay firmly ahead.

TSMC and Apple have built the 5nm lithography building now and the utilities are in place with the first trial 5nm production line partially installed now, so the next leapfrog jump is being readied for 2020.

Intel is utterly, completely frozen in place, totally stuck in the x86 ice sheet. Intel isn't going anywhere .....

ARM will simply step around Intel and keep on going at the same developmental pace (two 30-40% improvements annually, one in spring, one in fall with a lithography generation change-up coming every two years).

Samsung and Huawei are now getting ready to duke it out again for the #2 and #3 slot while Microsoft and Qualcomm are still trying to make up a fully functional marriage over in laptop/PC space.

AMD is still picking up all the little Intel rot dribbles that are on the ground all over the place, Distasteful work that, but AMD is still doing well and is incorporating all the new ARM tech that Intel simply won't stoop to use.

Google is technically out front developmentally at the moment, but Google lacks all the lying and cheating and conniving "marketing skills" to commercialize on this progress and firm up the developmental lead they currently have.

How long will it be before the new ARM SoC designs performance equals the Core i3 and Core i5 throughput and graphics levels ???

::)

(look at your wrist watch, subtract a few hours and you got your answer)

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This last nugget is aimed directly at Intel and keynotes what is wrong with Intel right now.

Product density and efficiency -- in the same motherboard area that a competitor has to have to use their smallest non-graphics equipped, no radio on board, non-battery-efficient non-SoC processor, in that same space three (3) complete 8 core A-76 SoCs could fit in that same motherboard real estate complete with PoP memory, radio, CPUs, GPUs VPU and EVERYTHING a phone or a laptop needs to actually be productive. 3 of them.

Each of the three A76 SoCs would run on less than half the power consumed by the one much larger competitor processor -- one that still completely lacks both a functional graphics functionality and a cellular radio functionality. The competitor's set-up would still require additional chips worth of motherboard space for these functions. That runs the total equivalent area used on the competitors motherboard up to 4 times more area and three-four times the power budget of the A-76 SoC just to run all the extra chips the competitor actually requires (and at double the voltage required by the A-76 SoC).

The competitor's inability to use PoP packages (stacking memory on top of the SoC package as is commonly used in the ARM world) further aggravates these same area issues as all his components are "oversized" as well. Note: the competitor's radio and base band chipset by itself is almost exactly the same size as the ENTIRE A-76 SoC package.

Compared to this competitor and all of his required extra chips, an ARM A-76 SoC has twice the processing power at a quarter of the motherboard area that the competitive processor (and the required extra chips) has to have AND the A-76 SoC would run off 1/2 the voltage and 1/4 the total power budget that the competitor would require to run all his extra chips.

Cost --- all this extra silicone costs extra money and the "extra voltage" requires a lot of additional battery cells and a lot of extra watt/hours of charging time that also costs a lot of extra money.

This competitor typically has had to subsidize any product that is actually sold in direct competition to ARM processor equipped products.
This money came originally from laptops and desktop and server class chipset sales, but now ARM is moving into those same markets as well, so now the competitor is now unable to recoup his subsidy losses. Wall Street wants the net loss subsidies to stop, business that needs them long term should be abandoned rather than dragged out long term.

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/02/18 at 11:28:41

Update: The website change that sparked a thousand editorials on the death of Android tablets was apparently just a mistake. Google’s Hiroshi Lockheimer says the “we had a bug when we updated the site,” and the Android tablets website is now back online.

Then again, as Android Police’s Artem Russakovskii points out, now that the site is back online, it still looks horribly outdated: it features a trio of tablets that were released in 2015 and shows nothing current or nothing planned for the future. An Insider at the Google spaceship commented that the page's removal was "premature" but had nothing additional to share about the topic at this time.

(back to the original story, which is all now "premature" according to Google's insider leaks)

We still need to get all of the full implications of this, but Google just removed all the support pages for Android on Tablets from their web servers.

No announcements at all, just gone.

This makes sense if Google plans for you to run the new enlarged and magnified ChromeOS on all tablet and laptop classes of new devices, especially since Google has cooked in support for all of existing Android and all of existing Linux apps into their base Chrome OS system.

Newer Chromebooks are already running at this level --- they get updated weekly automatically.

We are looking for vendor pushed Android updates to be offered to suitably modern tablets to tee them up to load ChromeOS as soon as the vendors choose to get their finger from out of their nose and go register their hardware with the ChromeOS update systems. Samsung and the other major Android Tablet suppliers are on board with this, but haven't pushed any updates yet.

Most oriental Android tablets have never seen an update or upgrade ever and that habit won't change either --- Google will take that "slackness" over completely with the move over into ChromeOS as Google itself does the weekly updates.

But all the existing oriental tablets will likely remain what they are right now, forever.

Lots of older Android tablets won't be suitable to make this move over to ChromeOS and the entire world full of Fire tablets from Amazon will very likely fall in that unsuitable category as well too (by Amazon's own choices no less).

So, Amazon Fire tablets are losing their Android update functionality as Google provided that to Amazon along with everybody else. When the Open Android Project got all new tablet features given to it (one rev level back) this was Amazon's source code for their Fire OS updates. Now that Google no longer supports Android on Tablets -- poor Amazon will now get to properly regret being a butt head to Google all the time during this this past couple of years.

Shame that ...... I kinda liked my little Fire tablet (the one that now belongs to my wife). Fire items were way way short on stock Android standard hardware requirements, so I suspect they are also way way short on ChromeOS standard hardware requirements as well.

;)

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/07/18 at 17:08:07

New graphic that shows plateau of existing suppliers vs new technology coming on. It is flawed now by being slightly dated, it does not show 7nm performance vs 10nm, 12nm and 14nm. However, it does show the topping out of various companies, most particularly Intel at 14nm --- and it clearly illustrates why you should NOT BUY INTEL any longer as the bang for the buck simply doesn't live there any more.
(plus to get the performance shown here Intel requires a 2x higher voltage battery pack and about twice as many physical battery cells to get to the higher voltage ---- not space efficient at all compared to the others and would always require 2x the charging time just to stay charged)

Simple projection says that Qualcomm and AMD will both ramp up another notch to 7nm this year and basically be at about at the same performance zone. Intel will remain a lot lower than the others and that Intel will still be flat lined at 14nm since their 10nm isn't working right (10nm Intel actually works worse than their 14nm as seen on their last run).

Red = Qualcomm
Green = AMD
Grey = Intel

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Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/08/18 at 04:28:38

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12923/intels-core-i7-8086k-giveway-kicks-off-tonight

http://https://images.anandtech.com/doci/12923/8086k_Box_678x452.png

Intel is having a HUGE give away "Promotional Event"

Alongside the announcement of their new x86 anniversary-themed hex-core processor, the Core i7-8086K, Intel also announced that they would be giving a significant portion of their inventory away as part of a massive, globe-crossing giveaway. In total, Intel is producing just 50,000 units of the "specially binned" Coffee Lake CPU. And of those, 8,086 – or about 16% – are slated to be given away starting tonight.

Intel 8th Generation 'Coffee Lake' Core i7 Desktop Processors
i7-8086K i7-8700K i7-8700 i7-8700T
Cores 6C / 12T
Base Frequency 4.0 GHz 3.7 GHz 3.2 GHz 2.4 GHz
Turbo Boost 2.0
(Single Core) 5.0 GHz 4.7 GHz 4.6 GHz 4.0 GHz
L3 Cache 12 MB
DRAM Support DDR4-2666
Integrated Graphics GT2: 24 EUs
IGP Turbo 1.20 GHz
PCIe Lanes (CPU) 16
TDP 95 W 95 W 65 W 35 W
Price (tray) $425? $359 $303 $303

At 8pm Eastern (midnight UTC), Intel will be running a series of national 24 hour sweepstakes for the processors. Besides being notable for the sheer number of processors being given away – I simply cannot recall the last time any single event gave away 4-digits' worth of CPUs – an interesting quirk of Intel’s giveaway is that they are allocating a fixed number of CPUs in each sweepstakes nation. For the US this means 2,086 processors, another 2,000 for China, etc. Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries are also part of the giveaways. So while the giveaway crosses parts of the globe, the odds in any given nation are still decent, especially for places like Canada and Taiwan.

..... oooooooooh ------ Intel has done got themselves caught again trying to sell underspec'd parts tucked into the earliest runs of their newest processors. Brand new off spec stuff that didn't perform as good as the old stuff in testing, a situation which is apparently happening with Intel routinely now on every new generation roll out for the first 1-3 production runs it seems lately.

What to do? What to do? How can I get this stuck cookie jar off my hand without breaking it and making a loud clatter and alerting the whole world I am intentionally moving sub-standard stuff off on them on the sly ..... Intel is caught hand in cookie jar yet again, no less?

That's it !!! Let's have a give-away and flood the market with these sorry assed chips and then claim any substandard results showing up in benchmark testing are the give-aways showing up in the results by accident. ..... selling off substandard stuff at $425 a pop isn't very kosher, Intel. You should be ashamed of the off the wall stuff you've been doing lately.

Yep, that's our story and we're sticking to it .....

::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ....... and that 16% number, is that your current failure sorting rate at the moment, Intel?

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by verslagen1 on 06/08/18 at 08:12:17

"unlocked" meaning even MS doesn't want them?

But who cares if they are unlocked... tell me they are fixed.

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/08/18 at 10:12:23

Versy, do you mean fixed as for the Meltdown and Spectre illnesses, known versions 1-6 ???

Nooooooooo ...... What were you thinking, you silly silly boy. Intel, really actually fix something ???? Where have you been the last 3 years?

Versy, did you catch that this same exact Core i7 part number from Intel comes in FOUR spec versions, running four different speeds ranging from

4.0 GHz 3.7 GHz 3.2 GHz 2.4 GHz

and drawing four different distinct current levels

95 W 95 W 65 W 35 W

What does this large performance/current range mean to me? Laser truncation cutting off the dead cores and post laser SORTING, lots & lots of sorting. And 16% of what was produced can't even be sold as being inside that huge huge range of specs and current draws and this sorted out as substandard junk has to be given away as promotions ......

And here comes the new marriage of Qualcomm and Microsoft, with 12 watt 8 core 7nm chipsets that are going to be performance equivalent to the 35 watt Intel version right out of the gate (with higher wattage equivalents to be created in a couple of years if deemed to be needed).

Do you remember those ass kicking 10nm lithography 48 core Qualcomm rackspace chipset that only pulled 145 watts in normal use as shipped this past spring ??? Yeah, that one ARM chipset that outperformed the two paired up 18 core Intel Xenons at 3/4 of the Intel current draw ???

I think Qualcomm still remembers how to build those puppies and could build some of them at 7nm lithography too running at even lower current draws if Mickey wanted to fully support them with a well fitted set of good software.

I really don't think Qualcomm has to go to that extreme, that within the DynamIQ systems rules they can very easily put together a 16 core cluster VERY QUICKLY that will compete advantageously against the best of Intel's Core i7 product family at less than half the cost, both in dollars and in the battery power required to drive the PoP memory stacked on top of the CPU complete with good on board graphics and radio etc. etc. SoC based chipsets that will last for at least twice as long as an Intel unit can do on smaller lighter batteries.

Qualcomm acting on their own can build a 16 core variant of the 855 using ARM A-76 big cores with no problems, this would replace the Intel Core i7 and the lower portion of the Intel Core i9 products that exist right now on a throughput speed parity basis.

No, Intel hasn't fixed anything, they just run their equipment "as is" at 14nm and repeatedly sort what falls out the end of it into their various marketing "bins".

Then Intel hits the stuff in the trash bin with the truncation laser to see if cutting it down to only the cores that actually work will yield something that is remotely sale-able (but at the cut down lowered core counts like 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 cores, starting from 8 Intel cores as originally built).

:-?

So, Intel says the multipliers are unlocked and the chips can be boosted for clock rate and voltage, but if you burn one up you gotta go buy the replacement yourself as Intel doesn't warranty boosted multiplier or over-voltage damage to their chipsets.

So sure boys, you can go over-clock the snot out of it if you want to ...... you over enthusiastic Intel fan idiots, you.

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/08/18 at 15:16:04

https://www.windowscentral.com/hands-built-windows-qualcomm-snapdragon-850-arm-processor

Hands-on with the built-for-Windows Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM processor

Qualcomm is targeting mainstream computers and users with the Snapdragon 850, aiming for the first devices to sit in the $500 to $800 price range. It's no coincidence that's also right where a similarly-sized and capable Apple iPad is priced; tablets have long threatened the entry-level mainstream PC space, and Intel has thus far failed to produce a credible competitive chipset for Windows PC makers. With the Snapdragon 850, they'll now truly have that option. ASUS, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung have all committed to launching Snapdragon 850 devices, and more are expected to announce them in the months ahead.

In targeting mainstream users, Qualcomm is for now ceding the high power computing market to Intel. The Snapdragon 850 isn't designed for high-power computing like Photoshop or AAA PC games; it's designed to get the most battery life for day-to-day computing uses, enabling thinner, lighter, and cooler devices that weren't possible before.

Qualcomm is working with app developers to make some of the heavier mainstream apps out there native to ARM instead of emulating and it is even developing an ARM-compatible Chromium engine to enable web-wrapper apps like WhatsApp and Slack to perform dramatically better on the platform. Microsoft is also taking significant steps in support for ARM, putting one-button encoding to ARM into the latest version of Visual Studio. Apps deployed to the Microsoft Store will simply serve the most compatible version offered to customers, making ARM deployment practically a no-brainer.

The Snapdragon platform and Windows will enable thinner, lighter, and cooler devices, as well as new form factors.

It's worth remembering that these are still the earliest days of proper support from the Snapdragon computing platform for Windows. Not only will we see an evolution in form factors enabled by the reduced power and cooling demands of ARM chips versus x86, moving to thinner and lighter and longer-lasting devices, but it in the years ahead we'll see an expansion of PC-focused Qualcomm processors, which should seriously concern Intel.

As the Snapdragon processor range reaches higher into the PC market and more app developers support the ARM chips, it'll be harder for customers to justify buying the hotter, slower, and bulkier Intel devices. I for one look forward to the day I can buy an ARM-powered device with the power competently to run Adobe Premiere. I wouldn't be surprised if devices like the dual-screened ASUS Project Precog end up powered by Qualcomm chips.

The first devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 are expected to be released by the end of 2018, just in time for the holiday shopping season and at price points that will make them enticing buys. We're coming up on an exciting time for computing, and it's going to be adapt or die for manufacturers like Intel.

Microsoft sees what Google is doing with Chromebooks and ChromeOS and Mickey is struggling to get its hat into that ring before Google can complete its ChromeOS world-wide implementations.

Shame that it is already too late, the new Chromebooks are physically shipping right now and Mickey on Qualcomm is still a late this year early next year sort of thing. But Mickey is also now saying they will put in the work to convert MS major apps over to be native to ARM rather than emulating everything, making the effort to try to make their system more appealing.

When this is accomplished Mickey will be primarily an ARM based OS provider and Intel will be the one out in the cold hurting, hurting a whole lot.

Title: Re: ARM Holdings rolls the A76 generation
Post by Oldfeller on 06/11/18 at 18:42:18

https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-1000-increased-tdp-notebook-performance/

Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 Might Be the First Real Threat to Intel With Increased TDP to Allow Higher Speeds and Power Future Ultrabooks

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850 chipset was recently announced to be dedicated for ARM-powered laptops that use the Windows 10 OS. The chip manufacturer is now looking forward to work on its next big thing for notebooks running Microsoft’s operating system; the Snapdragon 1000 and in doing so, it will be competing against Intel’s processors. It would be an ARM-based silicon with a lot more power as compared to the other SoCs. At this stage, detailed info on the chip is unavailable, but we will still let you in on all the details that we know right now.

Snapdragon 1000 To Get a TDP of 12 Watts in Future Ultrabooks – Qualcomm’s New SoC Targets New Performance Thresholds

The power level for the Snapdragon 1000 is rumored to be much higher than other SoCs. It may achieve a power level of about 12 watts in various devices, bringing it closer to Intel’s U-series 15W TDP territory. In fact, the maximum power dissipation for Snapdragon 850 can go up to 6.5 watts, and it can be compared with Intel’s Y-series of chips. With double the TDP, new performance values are also expected from the upcoming silicon.

ARM recently announced its Cortex-A76 architecture for the first time which has clock rates that can go up to 3.30GHz. ARM’s DynamIQ architecture also comprises of low power cores. TSMC, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer, is going to produce the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 only for use in smartphones. This TSMC contract may shrink the whole structure of Snapdragon down to 7nm, leading to high performance with lowered power consumption.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 Might Be the First Real Threat to Intel With Increased TDP to Allow Higher Speed and Power Future Ultrabooks

This all seems to be done to make notebooks more ubiquitous with Qualcomm chipsets, and in the act, demolish the established position of Intel. A device that might house the Snapdragon 1000 has been rumored to be developed by ASUS and might be called Primus. This product is estimated to feature a 2K resolution and may even provide support for the latest ultra-fast WiGig standard. The launch of this product could happen in late 2018