Can’t wait to see how these compares to the M series from Apple. More competitions should be good for both platforms, forcing them to push performance further.
According to Qualcomm’s own benchmarks they blow Apple out of the water. Of course that needs to be taken with a dumpster full of salt but if it’s even remotely that good, it’s very good news for everyone.
I wonder how Linux would run on these? Like ARM is ARM, right?
For most people (for the time being), the most important benchmark will be how the emulator/translation layer performs for their most common programs.
Chrome, Firefox, and more obviously already have ARM builds, but most programs do not, not to mention device drivers that will need to be recompiled for ARM.
There’s an Arstechnica article that goes into it, hopefully it works well and both MacOS, Windows, and Linux users will be able to reap the resulting benefits
