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That table doesn't have the Snapdragon 810

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/smartpho...

I worked on it in 2014. The table does have 808 listed. That may have been a lower end version.

Qualcomm got caught being late. They were continuing development of custom 32-bit cores and Apple came out with a 64-bit ARM core in the iPhone. The Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm called it a gimmick but Apple was a huge customer of Qualcomm's modems. Qualcomm shoved him off to the side for a while.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/qualcomm-gambit-apple-64-bi...

Because Q's custom 64-bit CPU was not ready the stop gap plan was to license a 64-bit RTL design from ARM and use that in the 810. It also had overheating problems but that's different issue. There were a lot of internal politics going on at Q over the custom cores and server chips that ended up in layoffs.




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