'Qualcomm Abruptly Cancels Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit — Refunds Customers for Mini PC, Ends Sales and Support for the Device Immediately' - Tom'sHardware
'Qualcomm Abruptly Cancels Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit — Refunds Customers for Mini PC, Ends Sales and Support for the Device Immediately' - Tom'sHardware
The Snapdragon X chips are focused more on efficiency than performance. While it allows Windows on Arm laptops to have amazing battery life that finally lets Windows devices compete against the legendary efficiency of Apple Silicon chips, it falls flat in the performance department when compared to proper desktop chips. The variant in the dev kit, the X1E-00-1DE, had a slightly higher dual-core boost clock than the top retial version. An X Elite dev kit was pushed beyond 100 watts, and the reviewer discovered that you're using up four times more power but only get up to 30% more performance.Qualcomm has suddenly and quietly discontinued the $899 Snapdragon X Elite Developer Kit, with the company refunding customers who bought the device since it went on sale. It's unclear if those who already received their devices will also get refunded. The chip-making giant built this $899 mini PC for developers to help them build apps for Windows on Arm.
高通突然悄悄地停產了售價899美元的驍龍X Elite開發者套件，公司正在退還購買該設備的客戶，自該設備開始銷售以來。目前還不清楚那些已收到設備的客戶是否也會被退款。這家芯片製造巨頭爲開發者構建了這款價值899美元的迷你PC，以幫助他們爲Windows on Arm構建應用程序。
According to the letter that developer Jeff Geerling received, Qualcomm said, "...the Developer Kit product comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence and so we are reaching out to let you know that unfortunately we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely."
根據開發者Jeff Geerling收到的信中，高通表示：「...開發者套件產品全面未達到我們通常卓越的標準，因此我們正在聯繫您，告訴您遺憾的是，我們已經決定暫停這款產品及其支持，時間不確定。」
Geerling and others who purchased the device previously pointed out that there had been long wait times for the device with little explanation as to what was going on.
Geerling和其他之前購買過該設備的人指出，他們需要等待很長時間才能收到設備，卻幾乎沒有解釋發生了什麼。
The Snapdragon X chips are focused more on efficiency than performance. While it allows Windows on Arm laptops to have amazing battery life that finally lets Windows devices compete against the legendary efficiency of Apple Silicon chips, it falls flat in the performance department when compared to proper desktop chips. The variant in the dev kit, the X1E-00-1DE, had a slightly higher dual-core boost clock than the top retial version. An X Elite dev kit was pushed beyond 100 watts, and the reviewer discovered that you're using up four times more power but only get up to 30% more performance.
驍龍X芯片更專注於效率而非性能。儘管它允許Windows on Arm筆記本電腦擁有驚人的電池續航時間，從而讓Windows設備終於能夠與蘋果Silicon芯片傳奇般的效率競爭，但在性能方面與適用於臺式機的適當芯片相比顯得遜色。開發套件中的變體X1E-00-1DE的雙核增強時鐘略高於頂級零售版本。Elite開發者套件被推動到100瓦以上，評論人員發現，您消耗了四倍的功率，但僅獲得了高達30%的性能提升。
By time customers started receiving their PCs, the retial laptops had long been on shelves, largely defeating the purpose of having a machine to build for the latest Snapdragon chips.
直到客戶開始收到他們的個人電腦時，零售筆記本電腦已經擺放在貨架上，這基本上違背了擁有一臺爲最新驍龍芯片構建的機器的初衷。
At the moment, you can only get these chips on laptops and a couple of tablets, but Qualcomm said that Snapdragon is coming to all PC form factors, including desktops. Because of this, all is not seemingly lost for a desktop Windows 11 on Arm device, and we might still get a Snapdragon X mini-PC, but from an OEM instead. Aside from that, some X2 Elite chips have been spotted being tested at Qualcomm — hopefully, the company will apply its learnings on the Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit to make a powerful mini-PC sporting these next-generation SoCs.
當前，您只能在筆記本電腦和幾款平板電腦上獲得這些芯片，但高通表示，驍龍將進入所有PC形態，包括臺式機。因此，對於臺式機上的Windows 11 on Arm設備來說，一切似乎並非末日，我們可能仍然會獲得一款驍龍X迷你PC，但將來自於OEm。除此之外，已發現一些X2 Elite芯片正在高通進行測試——希望該公司將其在驍龍X Elite開發者套件上的經驗應用到這些下一代SoC芯片所搭載的強大迷你PC上。
