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With its Snapdragon X Elite chips, Qualcomm, a major chipmaker, is making progress in the Linux community.
Working together with Linux
Qualcomm has been working hard to make sure that Linux can run on its Snapdragon X Elite chips. Upstreaming a steady flow of patchsets for the Linux kernel is part of this work.
Design and Usability
Qualcomm’s own CPUs, called Qualcomm OryonTM, are used to make the Snapdragon X Elite chips. Their clock speed can go up to 3.8 GHz, and they can boost a single or two cores to up to 4.3 GHz⁃. The chips also have a Qualcomm Adreno GPU that can handle up to 4.6 TFLOPs and an NPU that can handle 45 TOPs for AI tasks⁴.
Backup for Linux
Qualcomm has made sure that Linux can run on a lot of computers that use its older SoCs. Also, the company has released the first set of patches for Linux kernel support just one or two days after announcing a new generation of SnapdragonTM.
Firmware****
Standard UEFI-based boot can be used with the Snapdragon X Elite’s boot stack. Device trees are used to start up Linux, and all common bootloaders, like Grub and system-d boot, should work right out of the box⁹.
New Developments
As part of Qualcomm’s plans for the next six months, features like CPU and GPU speed improvement, power tweaks, hardware-accelerated video playback in Chrome and Firefox web browsers, and camera features² will be added.
Final Thoughts
Qualcomm’s efforts to support Linux have reached a major milestone with the Snapdragon X Elite chips. Because they work so well with Linux and have such great speed, these chips are going to change the way Linux computers are used.
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