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Qualcomm abruptly cancels Snapdragon X Elite dev kit — refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] conciselyverbose 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the Developer Kit product comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence and so we are reaching out to let you know that unfortunately we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely.

It sounds like they fucked something up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If this was the case they could've recalled and corrected, ditching everything is strange.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 months ago

My guess is the silicon had fundamental flaws, and it was cheaper to scrap the project than fix the issues and fix it.