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1. wslh · 1790204441 · focus · HN ↗

   Funny how Qualcomm is juggling three OSes to sell these chips while Apple just stuck a phone chip in the Neo and called it a day. Controlling the chip, the OS, and the actual computer is a huge advantage. Apple is more than one study case on competitive analysis.

   1. cherryteastain · 1790206144 · focus · HN ↗

      This is entirely Qualcomm's doing. If they supported Arm SBSA/UEFI+ACPI like some other Arm chip companies (e.g. Ampere) you could boot a generic Linux (or indeed BSD) Arm distro on their chips no problem. Controlling the entire platform is not necessary, just follow the standards.

      1. rjsw · 1790211047 · focus · HN ↗

         I don't think that would help with GPU or NPU, which another comment states are the drivers that Qualcomm are upstreaming.

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