To sum up:
- Qualcomm mandated that manufacturers use their power supply chips with their processor
- these power supply chips are wildly inappropriate for laptops, requiring 4-6 in parallel when a single properly spec'd chip would work
- said chips are designed for space-constrained phones, and are so small they require a different type of PCB
- those PCBs can't handle the power and need to double the layer count
- cost of PCBs becomes absolutely ludicrous at this scale
- Qualcomm refuses to allow manufacturers to use a more appropriate power supply
- manufacturers literally cannot afford the design and stopped using Qualcomm
- Qualcomm is now paying manufacturers to use their chipset, and are losing money in the deal
I don't even know how to express what an absolutely terrible idea this is. The Qualcomm chips are not fit for purpose, at all. Totally inappropriate for the application. No engineer in their right mind would go for this.
Qualcomm is mandating that manufacturers eat a fuckton of cost in raw materials, drastically reduce the efficiency and battery life of their product, and charge way more than the market would pay for an underpowered, overheating laptop with a pitiful battery life. For... Reasons?
It makes no sense at all. No one is going to use this chipset. If any devices do make it to market, their terrible performance will absolutely trash Qualcomm's reputation in this space and consumers won't buy them in the future.
Absolutely insane