Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design

Thanks. It was really hard to figure out the basics, I had to google around to learn that the Oryon is an Arm core, implementing v8.7-A of the ISA to be specific.

Thanks for giving some context! I should've done it yesterday, but was a bit busy when the article popped up.

It's not a new market for Qualcomm. They shipped three generations of Snapdragon 8cx chips for laptops, along with various other SoCs intended for Windows-based laptops and tablets. What's new here is that they now have a CPU core that allows them to actually compete with mainstream Intel and AMD laptop CPUs, so they scored a lot more design wins than their earlier SoCs.

Apart from the CPU cores, the rest of the Snapdragon X Elite chips seem to be IP blocks from outdated generations of Qualcomm's phone SoCs, so the Oryon CPU cores are the most interesting part of the SoC by far.