Qualcomm has been phoning it in in various forms for over a decade, including forcing MS to ship machines that do not really pass windows requirements (like broken firmware support). Maybe it got fixed with recent Snapdragon X, but I won't hold my breath.
We're talking about a company that, if certain personal sources are to be believed, started the Snapdragon brand by deciding to cheapen out on memory bandwidth despite feedback that increasing it was critical and leaving the client to find out too late in the integration stage.
Deciding that they make better money by not spending on implementing TSO, or not spending transistors on bigger caches, and getting more volume at lower cost, is perfectly normal.
We're talking about a company that, if certain personal sources are to be believed, started the Snapdragon brand by deciding to cheapen out on memory bandwidth despite feedback that increasing it was critical and leaving the client to find out too late in the integration stage.
Deciding that they make better money by not spending on implementing TSO, or not spending transistors on bigger caches, and getting more volume at lower cost, is perfectly normal.