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Windows 10 PCs Running on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 to Arrive this Year

posted by martyb on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-will-it-run-FillInTheBlank? dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-ultralight-pcs-based-on-arm-smartphone-chips-set-for-q4-says-qualcomm/

The ARM partnership between Microsoft and Qualcomm is notable as it expands Windows 10's existing support of x86 chips from Intel and AMD. It also looks set to overcome the constraints of Microsoft's previous ARM effort with Windows RT.

The Snapdragon 835 PCs will run full Windows 10 desktop, which has been compiled natively for Qualcomm's SoCs. They'll also run Win32 apps via an emulator, as well as universal Windows apps. Microsoft billed the forthcoming devices as a "truly mobile, power-efficient, always-connected cellular PC".

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday April 23 2017, @12:20PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Sunday April 23 2017, @12:20PM (#498291) Journal
    I didn't see that, but it makes sense. Intel has always been a fab company first and a CPU vendor a distant second (actually, most of the chips they sell aren't x86 CPUs, so perhaps a distant fourth or fifth), it's just that their CPU business is very high profile. The fact that AMD has been able to remain competitive while a generation or two behind in process technology and a much smaller budget shows exactly how bad Intel is at designing CPUs.
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