Snapdragon 1000 Will Support Up to 16GB RAM, 128GB Storage on Always-On PCs
Jun. 23, 2018Qualcomm’s upcomingSnapdragon 1000SoC meant for always-connected ARM laptops was recently leaked. At the time of this revelation, details about the Snapdragon 1000 were limited but now, we have more information from the same source
As per a report onWinfuture, the Snapdragon 1000 will have amuch better performance than the standard X86 processorsavailable in the market, including the Atom and Celeron series made by Intel. As reported earlier, the power output of the SOC will be comparable to that of Intel Core i7-7Y75 which powers 2-in-1 ultrabooks and high-end Windows tablets.
The chipset has a new power management controller to keep up to the benchmark set by Qualcomm’s currentalways-connected laptopswhich use Snapdragon 835. The Snapdragon 1000 SoC also features a socketed chipset instead of a soldered one which means that users might have theability to upgrade their laptops with a newer chipsetin future.
The report also iterates the speculation thatAsus is already working with Qualcommfor developing a device codenamed “Primus” expected to use a Snapdragon 1000 SoC. Dimension-wise, the SoC will be much bigger than Snapdragon 845 or the upcoming 850/855 but that should help in effective cooling. This means that manufacturers will be able to omit fans from laptops to make them thinner, much likewhat Google did with the Pixelbook.
The information is obtained from sources available to the developers and the final products may vary slightly from what has been found by Winfuture.
