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Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making

In 2019, a startup called Nuvia came out of stealth mode. Nuvia was notable because its leadership included several notable chip architects, including one who used to work for Apple. Apple chips li…

Instead, Snapdragon X Elite’s Oryon CPU clusters run at different maximum clocks to offer a combination of good single threaded and multithreaded performance. Arm CPUs traditionally featured weak vector execution, since handing throughput bound workloads would be difficult in a smartphone or tablet power budget. Intel’s Redwood Cove similarly stands to benefit from wider vectors, though Meteor Lake’s hybrid core setup prevents it from supporting AVX-512.

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