Qualcomm CEO @cristianoamon kicking off the presser thanking everyone for coming. Said he expected five people but over 75 showed up. Lol!
Appreciating @cristianoamon doing a strategic overlay on Qualcomm's vision. All about the edge. $QCOM
Yep @Qualcomm is strong in premium Android. Not expecting MTK to make a dent in that in 2022.
Qualcomm's biggest non smartphone growth opportunities that are part of the 7x TAM. $QCOM
First announcement is about Arm based PC ecosystem and in the enterprise. The product product proof was announced in Hawaii last month.
Next announcement is a custom Snapdragon chip into a future Microsoft XR headset. And integration of Spaces into Microsoft Mesh. #Metaverse
Next, #5G wireless "fiber". AT&T backhaul and direct to consumer and business. #FWA
Now Qualcomm automotive. At first I was "meh" on the notion of a "digital chassis" but I'll admit now it is spot on and I like it. The notion of leveraging platforms across many different car models. Scale from entry to premium. L1 to L5.
Qualcomm and Volvo Polestar and next gen SUV. "Also working with Qualcomm". Dash and connectivity.
Qualcomm plus Honda. In car virtual assistant and infotainment. 2H this year.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Ride Vision System. Qualcomm + Arriver. In vehicles in 2024.
And Snapdragon Ride Vision SoC.
Really rounds out the entire Ride platform.
Partners for Snapdragon Ride platform. Impressive as Qualcomm went public only three years ago. And it already has a $10B backlog without ADAS. Adding Renault Group today.
Correction: $13B backlog. $QCOM
And like that, the first #CES2022 press conference has come and gone. Here's the @Qualcomm News.
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Intel "P" Core:
-"performance" CPU core
-adds FP16 ML accel to AVX512
-claims 19% advantage over 11th Gen based on SPEC, Sysmark, Crossmark, PCMark, WebXPRT3, Geekbench
-Adds new "AMX" matrix engine for DL inference and training (?) claims 8X improvement on int8 (SR only)
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Thread Director does exactly what you would expect. It manages threads that:
-should go on P-core
-should go on E-core
-should move from P to E-core
If you recall early vers of Arm big.LITTLE had early issues with thread mgmt. Intel claims it's ahead of everyone on this. $INTC
Intel's Alder Lake (client) proc:
-spans ultra-portable (9W) to DT (125W)
-monolithic design, 3 pkg
-Up to 16C (8P/8E), 24T (16P/8E), 30MB cache
-DDR5, PCIe 5, WiFi6, Xe, TB4,
-Neither F or perf disclosed, but at min expect to be comp in notebook & <16T DT
-AI perf ?
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Intel held its Architecture Day on Tuesday. A trove of disclosures that I am still digesting. Stay tuned for analysis. One easy thing that I can say with certainty is that it will drive discrete GPU revenue and share. That’s not as easy to assess as you may think. $INTC
Gaming, Intel fields a performance desktop GPU "Arc" in Q1 that's up there with NVIDIA & AMD. Not at the top but close. NV & AMD will likely update so at worst case, as I have said for the past 4 years, Intel will have a very competitive mid-range, upper mid-range. TSMC N6. $INTC
Intel's gaming DGPU, Arc, has two features that are more similar to NVIDIA's arch than AMD's:
-Discrete ray tracing blocks
-Super-sampling driven by discrete AI blocks (XMX)
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I think @awscloud has the clearest compute product positioning:
-"fastest"
-"largest"
-"most"
-"only"
-"best" #reinvent
Graviton2 growing up a bit today with C6gn. Much higher performance workloads are possible like data analytics, nw appliances, load balancers, some HPC. #reinvent
Qualcomm's @cristianoamon starts off #SnapdragonSummit talking about:
-redefining premium experiences with #5G. As you would expect.
- Video. Gaming. XR. Life-saving.
- Many services "yet to be invented". Yup
Qualcomm a big R&D investor. $66B. While I don't like the comingling of "R" and "D" as its different, it's a huge number.
I wish @Verizon would match its #5G talk with what it actually does. I appreciate the vision and "what we're going to do" but disappointing so far. Speeds on mmWave are amazing, I want, but in so few places, it barely matters. #SnapdragonSummit
Going to doing some testing. What questions do you have about the new #MacBookProM1?
One open USB port on my professional MacBook. Here's the power adapter against a mini 12. I'm told I won't need the adapter as it gets 20 months of battery life. 😀 I'm immediately invited to download the 3GB Big Sur update within the first few minutes. #MacBookProM1
Updated BigSur. Installed my preferred browser, Microsoft Edge. Successful. Edge crashed within 5 minutes. No idea what these error codes mean, do you? Entering my password to reboot. Interesting. Restarting. No fan noise yet. #MacbookProM1