Contained in the Snapdragon X2 Elite Excessive’s reminiscence thriller
Some of the complicated moments of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit was once I unintentionally flipped over the instance of the Snapdragon X2 Elite Excessive within the testing room. Was that truly embedded reminiscence?
Sure, it’s. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Excessive Arm processor does help on-package reminiscence as an possibility, although the usual X2 Elite chips don’t. Kedar Kondap, Qualcomm’s senior vp of compute and gaming, informed PCWorld that the 48GB of embedded reminiscence that the X2 Elite Excessive was merely a selection Qualcomm made for efficiency testing, not a quantity PC makers are locked into.
That’s most likely why Qualcomm barely talked about the expertise in any respect — it’s complicated, and doubtless not a function customers will ever see, not to mention concentrate on. Nonetheless, it’s value realizing about.
“There’s a 12-core model, really, that does have the off-chip reminiscence,” Kondap stated, referring to the Snapdragon X2 Elite. “There’s an 18-core model that has an off-chip reminiscence. There’s an 18-core model that may have the built-in reminiscence [the Elite Extreme]. You might have the choice.”
However why 48 gigabytes of reminiscence, precisely?
Concerning the reminiscence dimension of the Elite Excessive, Kondap stated that the 48GB contained in the Elite Excessive was an arbitrary quantity. “It’s not restricted,” he stated. “48 gigabytes is what was accessible on this specific system, nevertheless it’s not restricted to be 40. Someone might say I simply need to put 24 inside, and I’m good with it and that’s 100-percent completely okay.”
That reminiscence will likely be configurable, because it usually is, between atypical system RAM and VRAM, Kondap added.
Apart from the Snapdragon X2 Elite Excessive, it seems to be like PC makers could have a extra atypical array of reminiscence choices than I first thought. They usually’ll be capable of run them on battery with out shedding efficiency, too.
