Apple is the first to equip the MacBook Air/Pro and Mac mini models at the end of 2020 with the M1 chip, which is similar to the A-series processors on the iPhone/iPad. However, perhaps because of the excitement of Apple’s two-year transition to Apple Silicon, Intel has recently taken a fierce advertising campaign to promote Windows 10 laptops based on Intel chips.
After the M1 MacBook went on the market, its powerful performance and excellent battery life left a deep impression on consumers. However, BGR pointed out that if Apple expands Apple Silicon to more product lines, the nightmare of chip giant Intel will only be the beginning.
At present, there are many companies on the market developing custom chips. In addition to Apple, Qualcomm also designed the Snapdragon 8cx platform for Android smartphones/tablets a few years ago, and it has been adopted by Microsoft’s Surface product line. Although the speed is not as fast as the M1 MacBook, the battery life is still quite impressive.
Now, as Apple’s M1 chip has greatly increased the industry level, other manufacturers will also be pressured to join this self-developed ARM chip war. Earlier, there were rumors that Google is developing SoC chips for the next generation of Pixel smartphones, and may expand to product lines such as Pixelbook netbooks.
As for one of the leaders in the Android camp, Samsung has just launched the newly designed Exynos 2100 chipset and is looking for ways to improve it to adapt to future Android devices. In addition, Samsung has released Windows hardware based on Qualcomm chips a long time ago.
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For a company that has long regarded Apple as a catch-up target, Samsung is likely to have included Windows 10 laptops based on self-developed ARM chips on its agenda. In the benchmark database just exposed, we once again saw the Snapdragon 8cx platform that Qualcomm has not officially released.
As shown in the figure above, a Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) platform was found in the Geekbench database. Foreign media believe that it is likely to be the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 version. Compared with previous generations of designs, its performance has been greatly improved.
In terms of specifications, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC contains eight high-performance cores, four of which have a higher frequency. In terms of single-core performance, it has increased by 35% and 24%, respectively, compared with the first and second generations, and there is still room for further optimization in the future.
Although the single-core performance of Apple’s M1 chip is 74% ahead of the second-generation Snapdragon 8cx, and AMD / Intel processors can also be easily crushed. However, the multi-core performance of the third-generation Snapdragon 8cx chip has quickly narrowed the gap with Intel’s 11th-generation Core i7 Tiger Lake mobile chip.
It should be pointed out that Geekbench’s short-term running points may not accurately reflect the long-term running performance under real conditions. Even so, Qualcomm’s third-generation 8cx chip is still expected to improve the operating speed and battery life experience of Windows 10.
In addition, in terms of the manufacturing process that most affects the power consumption/heating of mobile SoCs, Intel’s 11th-generation Core Tiger Lake chips are based on 10nm technology, Apple M1 and A14 Bionic both use advanced 5nm technology, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx second-generation SoC is 7nm.
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