“Performance” Oryon: Qualcomm’s Little Core

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite uses a hybrid core setup, breaking away from the all-big-core strategy that the company previously used with in-house core designs. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E96100 contains 18 cores, divided into 6 “performance” cores and 12 “prime” cores. Qualcomm’s “performance” cores fill the same role as little cores or efficiency cores on other chips, so I’ll be calling them E-Cores for simplicity. Like E-Cores on other chips, Qualcomm’s E-Cores are optimized for lowe...