Qualcomm accused of pumping up benchmark outcomes for its new Snapdragon chips

Throughout final October’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm acted just a little squirrely in the course of the briefing on the Snapdragon X Elite SoC. At MWC issues bought worse as the corporate put up slides exhibiting that the X Elite chip’s CPU outperformed these from Apple, AMD, and Intel with out displaying any information that might confirm these claims. The benchmarks had been created utilizing a “black field” with the media not allowed to run or take a look at something. Qualcomm mentioned that it might give the media time to confirm this data earlier than the chips had been formally introduced. That happened as we speak and Qualcomm apparently did not hold its phrase.

To make issues worse, when the producers obtained their preliminary samples, efficiency numbers had been “far sub-50%” than the figures claimed by Qualcomm. The aforementioned “deep supply” at Qualcomm instructed SemiAccurate that the benchmarks had been cheats and that Qualcomm was conscious of it. Laptops utilizing the brand new chips will launch in June and Qualcomm will nonetheless not enable unbiased checks of the {hardware}.