Qualcomm is an established player in terms of providing a chip for smartphones because of a very popular series of Snapdragon chips.
But Qualcomm is now seriously considering expanding its wings outside the smartphone in the consumer electronic segment.
Qualcomm now gives a laptop and thinks it can make the chip better than Apple M1 for laptops.
One of the biggest advantages of the new Apple M1 chip is its energy efficiency.
Chip makers such as Intel, AMD and others have not provided results comparable to the new M1 series of chips made Apple exclusively for the MacBook range.
While Qualcomm depends on the arm to make the chipset for smartphones, Cristiano Amon’s CEO thinks to defeat Apple in a laptop chip game, the company needs to make the chip itself.
Amon told Reuters that “need a specially designed chip if the customer rivals a new laptop from Apple.” So, how does Qualcomm make a laptop chip better than Apple M1? The answer lies in the acquisition of the Qualcomm chip design company named Nuvia.
The chip design company was founded by Ex-Apple Engineers and Qualcomm reportedly preparing to make chips for laptops using Nuvia technology starting from 2022.
Qualcomm has obtained Nuvia for $ 1.4 billion.
“We need to have leading performance for battery powered devices,” Amon told Reuters.
“If the arms, which we have relationships for many years, finally develop a better CPU than what we can build alone, then we always have the option for the license from the arm.” ARM will be acquired by Nvidia at a price of $ 40 billion, “the merger has objected to the regulator.”