I remember saying months ago that Qualcomm’s offerings often look excellent in synthetic workloads but fall apart in real-world usecases, and I got downvoted to oblivion and called an x86 shill for it.
I never found it likely that Qualcomm would be able to compete with AMD, Apple, or even Intel in the short term.
Wow, how disappointing. One of the quotes say they got less than half as much performance as was promised, I’m hoping it’s a driver issue and not just outright scam marketing.
Yeah, it sounds like Qualcomm is driving straight at a cliff’s edge in terms of their reputation…
If this is true it will be devastating for Qualcomm … they hyped the new chips big time, and some huge manufacturers happily announced products with the new chip. So if this falls flat, a few influential players will not be happy at all…
Not to mention the rest of the tech media… they will happily sell the pitchforks and torches.
It’s been known for a long time that they cheat on benchmarks
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks
They specifically detect benchmarking tools and run at a frequency they can’t maintain for the length of the benchmark
They lack competition so unfortunately it won’t affect them too much
I really can’t imagine this going well for Qualcomm, if the article is true.
It smells like there’s a lot of smoke around their implementation of the benchmarks, and consumers will immediately discover the fire when the time arrives and devices are in-hand.
Damn it man. I want arm laptops to be good. I can’t justify buying anything apple even with Asahi as good as it is now.
Apple arm chips still have good days ahead of it. It’s been years since the MacBook m1 was released, how can competition not catch up already ?
