A recent column of mine hit a sour note with one open-source software developer. As it turns out, the Windows on Arm software development situation doesn't all come down to silicon and hardware ...

Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation and another year or so of ...

We are at a very peculiar crossroads in terms of technological transitions, with three major competitors in the CPU arms (pun intended) race. We have x86, ARM and RISC-V (although RISC-V is pretty new ...

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MediaTek is designing chips to challenge Qualcomm’s dominance in the Windows on Arm ecosystem. However, Qualcomm has signed an exclusivity deal with Microsoft until the end of 2024. If not renewed by ...

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processors are the fastest ARM-based chips available for Windows laptops to date, making PCs with ARM chips competitive with their Intel and AMD-powered counterparts for the ...

Five years ago, if you wanted a Windows on Arm laptop, you faced two huge problems. The first was that software support for Windows on Arm was dismal, with relatively few companies porting their ...

With ARM processors increasingly becoming part of the desktop ecosystem, porting code that was written for x86_64 platforms is both necessary and a massive undertaking. For many codebases a simple ...