'Qualcomm Abruptly Cancels Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit — Refunds Customers for Mini PC, Ends Sales and Support for the Device Immediately' - Tom'sHardware
'Qualcomm Abruptly Cancels Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit — Refunds Customers for Mini PC, Ends Sales and Support for the Device Immediately' - Tom'sHardware
The Snapdragon X chips are focused more on efficiency than performance. While it allows Windows on Arm laptops to have amazing battery life that finally lets Windows devices compete against the legendary efficiency of Apple Silicon chips, it falls flat in the performance department when compared to proper desktop chips. The variant in the dev kit, the X1E-00-1DE, had a slightly higher dual-core boost clock than the top retial version. An X Elite dev kit was pushed beyond 100 watts, and the reviewer discovered that you're using up four times more power but only get up to 30% more performance.Qualcomm has suddenly and quietly discontinued the $899 Snapdragon X Elite Developer Kit, with the company refunding customers who bought the device since it went on sale. It's unclear if those who already received their devices will also get refunded. The chip-making giant built this $899 mini PC for developers to help them build apps for Windows on Arm.
高通突然悄悄地停止了售價899美元的Snapdragon X Elite開發者套件，並退款給購買該設備的客戶，自其上市以來。目前尚不清楚已經收到設備的人是否也會得到退款。這家芯片製造巨頭爲開發人員構建了這款售價899美元的迷你PC，以幫助他們爲Arm上的Windows建立應用程序。
According to the letter that developer Jeff Geerling received, Qualcomm said, "...the Developer Kit product comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence and so we are reaching out to let you know that unfortunately we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely."
根據開發者Jeff Geerling收到的信件，高通表示，「...開發者套件產品全面沒有達到我們通常的卓越標準，因此我們正在聯繫您，讓您知道，不幸的是，我們已經決定暫停這款產品及其支持，時間不定。」
Geerling and others who purchased the device previously pointed out that there had been long wait times for the device with little explanation as to what was going on.
Geerling和其他之前購買了這款設備的人指出，他們等待該設備的時間很長，但幾乎沒有解釋發生了什麼。
The Snapdragon X chips are focused more on efficiency than performance. While it allows Windows on Arm laptops to have amazing battery life that finally lets Windows devices compete against the legendary efficiency of Apple Silicon chips, it falls flat in the performance department when compared to proper desktop chips. The variant in the dev kit, the X1E-00-1DE, had a slightly higher dual-core boost clock than the top retial version. An X Elite dev kit was pushed beyond 100 watts, and the reviewer discovered that you're using up four times more power but only get up to 30% more performance.
Snapdragon X系列芯片更專注於效率而非性能。雖然這使得Arm上的Windows筆記本電腦擁有了驚人的電池壽命，最終讓Windows設備能夠與蘋果Silicon芯片傳說中的效率相抗衡，但在性能方面表現平平，與傳統的臺式電腦芯片相比。開發套件中的變體X1E-00-1DE的雙核睿頻時鐘略高於頂級零售版本。X Elite開發者套件被推至超過100瓦，並且評論者發現，你會消耗四倍的功率，但只能獲得高達30%的性能。
By time customers started receiving their PCs, the retial laptops had long been on shelves, largely defeating the purpose of having a machine to build for the latest Snapdragon chips.
當客戶開始收到他們的PC時，零售筆記本電腦已經在貨架上很久了，這在很大程度上破壞了擁有一臺機器構建最新Snapdragon芯片的目的。
At the moment, you can only get these chips on laptops and a couple of tablets, but Qualcomm said that Snapdragon is coming to all PC form factors, including desktops. Because of this, all is not seemingly lost for a desktop Windows 11 on Arm device, and we might still get a Snapdragon X mini-PC, but from an OEM instead. Aside from that, some X2 Elite chips have been spotted being tested at Qualcomm — hopefully, the company will apply its learnings on the Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit to make a powerful mini-PC sporting these next-generation SoCs.
目前，您只能在筆記本電腦和幾款平板電腦上獲得這些芯片，但高通表示，Snapdragon將進入所有PC形態，包括臺式機。由於這一點，臺式機Windows 11 Arm設備並非迷失希望，我們仍可能獲得Snapdragon X迷你PC，但需從OEm獲得。除此之外，一些X2 Elite芯片已經被發現正在高通進行測試—希望該公司會將對Snapdragon X Elite開發者套件的經驗運用到這些下一代SoC芯片的強大迷你PC中。
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