Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread

[Hesperax]

There were a few comments from Qualcomm's Earning Call about the Ventana acquistion:

We also acquired Ventana Micro Systems, reinforcing our leadership and commitment to expanding the RISC V standard in ecosystem, and development of our high-performance RISC V CPU for data center workloads.
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We're executing on two fronts. It's CPU. We added a RISC V CPU now to our roadmap in addition to Oryon, which is ARM compatible.

Sounds like they plan to offer both ARM and RISC-V for the datacenter. Maybe we will see Veyron V3 after all.

 

[MerryCherry]

CPU team with a headcount of ~300. How does it compare to others?

 

[mvprod123]

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CPU team with a headcount of ~300. How does it compare to others?

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[jdubs03]

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CPU team with a headcount of ~300. How does it compare to others?

I would assume the CPU design team is larger. That 300 number excludes any QCOM folks outside of Nuvia and Ventana.

Maybe SemiAnalysis will do a similar write up on Qualcomm in the future.

 

[soresu]

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Oh how weird, their LP µArch is designed in the same place ARM Ltd's smol cores are 😅

Had no idea so much of their CPU and GPU design infra was in the UK.