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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: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:03AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:03AM (#498140) Journal

    On top of AMD competition, Intel will be sooo happy with this.
    I can feel its former tick-tock (now in 3 steps incarnation) will register some remarkable tachycardia which, if not properly controlled, may degenerate into fibrillation.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:28AM (1 child)

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:28AM (#498148) Journal

    Intel will be tasked with producing ARM's 64-bit cores and other hardware that companies like Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and others base their chip designs off of. [...]

    -- https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/16/12507568/intel-arm-mobile-chips-licensing-deal-idf-2016 [theverge.com]

    • (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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