"After a year and a half of work, Tuxedo announced that it is discontinuing work on its planned Arm laptop based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon System-on-Chip. There is some good news mingled in with the bad, though. The company is planning to submit its support code upstream to help others trying to support computers based around the device - and in a somewhat unusual move, it hinted that the Medion SPRCHRGD 14 was the model it aimed to OEM."
"In particular, the long battery runtimes - usually one of the strong arguments for ARM devices - were not achieved under Linux. A viable approach for BIOS updates under Linux is also missing at this stage, as is fan control. Virtualization with KVM is not foreseeable on our model, nor are the high USB4 transfer rates. Video hardware decoding is technically possible, but most applications lack the necessary support."
"The device was to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, whose release The Register covered in October 2023. In November that year, that specific SoC was mentioned at the Ubuntu Summit as a target platform. We reported that Tuxedo's machine was coming in June 2024. Back then, the vendor said TUXEDO on ARM is coming, and another update followed in March 2025."
Tuxedo Computers discontinued development of its planned Arm laptop based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite after 18 months of work. The company will submit its support code upstream to assist others supporting the platform and indicated the Medion SPRCHRGD 14 as the OEM target. Multiple Linux-on-Arm problems prevented product completion: poor battery runtimes under Linux, lack of a viable BIOS update method, missing fan control, absence of KVM virtualization, insufficient USB4 transfer rates, and limited application support for video hardware decoding. The core SoC is already two years old and has been succeeded by the Snapdragon X2 Elite, complicating next-generation plans.
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