Qualcomm has canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, the miniature Windows on Arm PC that was originally supposed to ship in June. In an email to customers, Qualcomm said the mini PC “has not met our usual standards of excellence” and orders will now be refunded.
Qualcomm has been struggling to ship the mini PC for months now, after originally planning to release it in June alongside the chips that powered the first wave of Copilot Plus PCs. Beyond the mention of not meeting standards, Qualcomm doesn’t explain why it took months to reach the conclusion of canceling the hardware before it shipped to most people.
Some developers, like Jeff Geerling, already received their Snapdragon Dev Kit before Qualcomm’s cancelation. Greeling even performed a teardown on the hardware and fully reviewed it, too. The conclusion of the review was that while this mini PC had similar performance to Apple’s M3 Pro, the hardware was a missed opportunity thanks to a lack of Linux support and weird restrictions on being able to resell the device.
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