Inside Snapdragon X2 Elite’s Oryon: The CPU challenging Intel, AMD and Apple

At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite architecture deep dive, Pradeep Kanapathipillai takes his seat with the calm confidence of someone who has spent more than twenty years designing the hidden machinery inside processors.

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During my interview, Pradeep is soft-spoken, technically surgical, and visibly comfortable debating cache hierarchies the way most people discuss lunch. As Vice President of CPU Engineering, Pradeep and his team is responsible for the Oryon CPU, Qualcomm’s custom architecture powering its most ambitious leap into PC compute with the Snapdragon X2 Elite chip. Beneath Pradeep’s understated manner is a story of architectural reinvention that rarely happens in the semiconductor world, especially at this scale. Add As A Trus