Qualcomm announced in March last year to 1.4 billion U.S. dollars to buy CPU design company Nuvia, and is expected to be held in Hawaii on October 24-26 this year Snapdragon Summit, the launch of self-research processor called “Oryon”, the estimated name of the product for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4, the product is expected to be the first time in the world. The product name is expected to be Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4.
According to foreign technology media SemiAccurate report, in terms of performance, self-developed processor “Oryon” is better than Apple’s M2, but not as good as the M3 chip, but there are a lot of challenges in power consumption.
Qualcomm wants to use its own PMIC in the “Oryon” processor, which is smartphone-oriented and not capable of laptop tasks, and uses a proprietary power management protocol that has raised concerns among major PC partners.
Note: PMIC Chinese name for power management integrated circuits, mainly characterized by high integration, will embrace the traditional multi-output power packaged in a chip, so that the multi-power application scenarios higher efficiency, smaller volume.
The media reported that Qualcomm’s “Oryon” processor uses a proprietary power management protocol, so the system on a chip (SoC) needs to use a unique PMIC, which forces PC notebook manufacturers to buy Oryon processor in addition to purchasing these PMICs.
PC makers are usually free to purchase PMICs, but Qualcomm wanted to bundle them, and the PMICs are smartphone-oriented and may not be able to handle and perform PC scenario tasks.
The best solution in front of Qualcomm is to optimize the PMIC, but that means PC makers are being held hostage by Qualcomm to pay the high cost of fixes. It still requires multiple PMICs to handle PC-class SoCs and printed circuit boards (PCBs) with 0.6mm pitch HDI.
Reports indicate that several major PC vendors have asked Qualcomm to halt the Oryon program because of the PMICs.
Sources say Qualcomm has offered financial compensation to OEMs to offset the cost impact of using the Oryon chipset and mandatory PMICs for Windows laptops.
