It was known that when Qualcomm bought Nuvia in 2021 for 1,400 million dollars, its mission was to compete against the duopoly of AMD and Intel. Now, the American company is preparing to hit the table with a 12 core CPU.
According to a report published on the website of The computer bunglerthis CPU will be for both desktops and laptops and according to Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, will outperform Apple’s M2.
The report adds that although the company’s plans were to launch these CPUs in 2023, their arrival on PCs will be delayed until 2024, so perhaps the Cupertino company can continue to lead this comparison with a new launch during the next two years.
This long-awaited central processing unit will be based on Snapdragon technology and the Nuvia Phoenix, known by its code name Hamoa. Like Intel, it will offer a hybrid design of eight high-performance cores plus four energy-efficient cores.
Similar to the Apple M1
This Qualcomm processor will offer a memory and cache design similar to the one released by the Apple M1, in addition to being manufactured for support dedicated graphics cards.
The company also looks to Apple, in the sense of matching what Apple Silicon achieved by not using the public design of ARM cores, since they will be based on simplified ARM instructions.
Qualcomm would launch a processor very similar to the Apple M Series, where the RAM itself will also be integrated into the same silicon.
In terms of performance, only one test was recorded with a prototype version that managed to outperform mobile SoCs like the Snapdragon 865, Apple A12X and Apple A13 in Geekbench 5 software while consuming less power.