The solution to chicken-or-egg problems is known: you spend money to just overpower the problem. But MS and Qualcomm aren't doing that; they're half-assing their ARM hardware to save a little money.
Lol, Qualcomm is Oracle of hardware world. Buying a company is a no way an indicator that they want to do anything. They haven't delivered a good SoC since Apple released A7.
Except for the fact ARM is suing them to prevent using any of the Nuvia tech in their chips, since the license terms with ARM didn't convey with the purchase.
There is a good chance they get on the verge of shipping and find they can't actually sell any of their new chips...
Does Qualcomm actually need to whole-ass a solution though? They're making gobs of money on mobile SoCs, any additional market for these chips is just gravy. Microsoft is the party that stands to really gain from a successful x86 alternative here but they don't seem like they're willing to pony up Apple or Google money to design their own chips yet.
Qualcomm is fully capable of building an SoC with eight X2 or X3 cores, for example, if MS is willing to pay for it. I think it's on MS that they didn't set higher performance goals for Qualcomm. Nvidia can also design good ARM chips (see Orin) but MS went and got married to Qualcomm (never do this!) so they can't use them.
>The solution to chicken-or-egg problems is known: you spend money to just overpower the problem.
Ah yes, "just spend more money" has solved so many problems over the years. Can anyone even name a single time a lot of money was spent and the product failed? Victory is practically guaranteed!
