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'Snapdragon 1000' Chip May Be Designed For PCs From the Ground Up (engadget.com)
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 processor may be intended for PCs, but it's still a half step -- it's really a higher-clocked version of the same processor you'd find in your phone. The company may be more adventurous the next time, though. From a report: WinFuture says it has obtained details surrounding SDM1000 (possibly Snapdragon 1000), a previously hinted-at CPU that would be designed from the start for PCs. It would have a relatively huge design compared to most ARM designs (20mm x 15mm) and would consume a laptop-like 12W of power across the entire system-on-a-chip. It would compete directly with Intel's low-power Core processors where the existing 835 isn't really in the ballpark. A reference design found in import databases might give a clue as to what you could expect: it'd have up to 16GB of RAM and two 128GB storage modules.
Do you mean 64-bit x86 applications or 64-bit ARM applications? This chip is using 64-bit ARM cores, so will run 64-bit software natively. Whether it runs 64-bit x86 software is a question of the functionality of the emulator, not of the hardware. I don't believe that Microsoft's x86 emulator supports 64-bit programs yet, but it was announced to be on the roadmap a few months back.
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This wouldn't be engineered for PCs, this would be engineered for budget laptops AKA tablets with keyboards. What's the difference? PCs have a common bus (or at least can outsource the job), the modern one being PCIe. Honestly, this is still just another beefed up smartphone chip.
Tell me when they make a chip with a PCIe root complex and then i'll tell you they made a chip made for PCs.
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No, *you're* stuck. I can run Linux and BSD on my ARM chips.