We know for a fact that their Snapdragon chips for phones have always lagged years behind Apple’s A-series chips in both sheer performance and performance-per-watt, with no sign that they’re catching up. So how in the world would their ARM chips for PCs beat Apple’s M-series chips?
He’s right that Windows’ ARM story is still a mess in the absence of anything remotely resembling Rosetta 2. I am looking forward to Qualcomm laptops running Linux, however.
As for dismissing Qualcomm’s performance claims, the big difference is Qualcomm bought Nuvia, which was started by Gerard Williams, the brains behind Apple Silicon, and indeed Apple’s progress since Williams left has been lackluster and mostly due to process improvements, so Gruber is being both churlish and complacent there.
He’s right that Windows’ ARM story is still a mess in the absence of anything remotely resembling Rosetta 2. I am looking forward to Qualcomm laptops running Linux, however.
He’s right that Windows’ ARM story is still a mess in the absence of anything remotely resembling Rosetta 2. I am looking forward to Qualcomm laptops running Linux, however.
As for dismissing Qualcomm’s performance claims, the big difference is Qualcomm bought Nuvia, which was started by Gerard Williams, the brains behind Apple Silicon, and indeed Apple’s progress since Williams left has been lackluster and mostly due to process improvements, so Gruber is being both churlish and complacent there.
Arm windows literally runs x&6/x64 code just like rosetta2 does.
I think ARM64 can only run x64 apps not x86.
It can emulate x86 & x86_64 software just fine.