Wednesday, December 4th 2024
GEEKOM Teases World's First Snapdragon X Elite Desktop Mini PC
This was bound to happen sooner rather than later—desktop mini-PC designer GEEKOM, which specializes in mini-PCs powered by mobile processors, teased its first product powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor. This marks one of the first consumer desktop with Windows 11 Arm. The company hasn't put out specs for the desktop, but it should go up against the base model of the Apple Mac Mini M4 in use-case—as a slick and efficient everyday desktop for Internet and office productivity. The GEEKOM desktop has a very Mac Mini-like product design. The front features a power button in the right place, next to a 4-pole headset jack, and a couple of type-A USB 3.x ports. The side appears to have a multi-format card reader. There are no pics of the rear I/O.
Source:
VideoCardz
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SmartTV, Voice Assistant- Apple, Amazon, Google, Roku
Smartphones- Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, Google, Hisilicon
Handhelds- AMD, Intel, Nvidia
Virtual headsets- Apple, Qualcomm
Tablets- Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel
Laptops- Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel
Consoles- AMD
SFF- Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, VIA
AIO- Apple, Intel, AMD
Desktops- Apple, Intel, AMD
Workstations- Intel, AMD
Servers- Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Amazon, Ampere, IBM, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Oracle
Did I miss a CPU designer and/or form factor?
You missed HiSilicon/Huawei in smartphones and, depending on whether HPC can be thrown into Servers, IBM with POWER.
If we go for some more exotic choices:
- Fujitsu makes chips for HPC and, AFAIK, still has SPARC servers on offer.
- Microsoft has Cobalt for Azure servers
- VIA/Zhaoxin for X86 chips are also still around
NVIDIA is also a big player on the console market IMO, I mean both the current and next gen Nintendo Switch uses an NVIDIA ARM chip.
Google also has their own CPUs to compete with AWS' graviton.