More details about snapdragon 1000 for laptops leaked

New details of the Snapdragon 1000, a new Qualcomm chip designed for Windows 10 laptops, have come to light in recent hours.

Snapdragon 1000 in Cortex-A76 from ARM and would be manufactured at 7 nm

Microsoft's development with Windows 10 for ARM has led Qualcomm to partner with the Redmond giant. The first Windows 10 on ARM computers uses the Snapdragon 835 processor, with designs based on the Snapdragon 850 (a higher clocked Snapdragon 845 intended for notebooks) planned for later this year. Snapdragon 1000 will be the continuation of that Snapdragon 850, improving performance and adding more functions.

The Snapdragon 1000 will be an even more powerful notebook SoC chip, designed to go head-to-head with Intel's Y-U series Core processors. These chips from Intel have a TDP that varies between 4.5W and 15W, respectively, and are used in a wide range of Ultrabook-type tablets and laptops. Snapdragon 1000 aims to attack this segment, with a Soc that will have a consumption of 6.5 W only for the CPU, and 12 W for the entire SoC. The platform currently being tested on Snapdragon 1000 has 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM and two 128GB UFS flash drives. It also has 802.11ad gigabit Wi-Fi, gigabit LTE, and a new controller that does power management.

The SoC's size is also large (20 × 15mm, compared to 12 × 12mm for the Snapdragon 850), and, oddly for a laptop chip, test systems have a socket processor rather than a soldered one. Socket processors are standard on desktops and servers, but today's mobile devices use chips that are soldered in place because they reduce the height of the chip, and updating these systems is rarely considered necessary.

The chip is expected to use ARM's Cortex-A76 architecture and be built using TSMC's 7nm manufacturing process. The performance of the chip should put it in line with the Intel Skylake U series (ver. 2017).

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