Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Dev Kit lets developers test ARM apps on Windows

25 May 2021
The small PC will be available at a reasonable price this summer.

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AnonD-909757, 25 May 2021Does anyone know what are the pros and cons and the differe... moreThis have nothing to do with android. The point is to develop apps for windows on ARM based chips instead of x86 like conventional PCs use

    Utkarsh, 26 May 2021Developers need something atleast like M1 Mac mini interms ... moreYou absolutely missed the point of this machine.

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      • 26 May 2021

      Utkarsh, 26 May 2021Developers need something atleast like M1 Mac mini interms ... moreIt's not as a work machine. It's to make apps for future Snapdragon laptops. It's like a early testing platform for app devs to test the app.

        I hope finally they are getting serious about this.

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          • Utkarsh
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          • 26 May 2021

          Developers need something atleast like M1 Mac mini interms of performance, anyhting below that people would just buy mac mini itself. Its not that expensive either.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 25 May 2021

            Time for proper Adreno GPU drivers?

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              • 25 May 2021

              I believe the reason that ARM development is so slow on Windows is Intel and AMD are playing "huge" to MS.

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                • Maulik0Lakhani
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                • 25 May 2021

                This is too under-powered. CPU at-least should be Kryo 570.

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                  NXTwoThou, 25 May 2021It's WoA, not Android. It comes preinstalled with pre... moreThanks you!

                    AnonD-909757, 25 May 2021Does anyone know what are the pros and cons and the differe... moreIt's WoA, not Android. It comes preinstalled with pretty much all of Microsoft development environments. It's actual silicon to verify everything you create works correctly.

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                      • 25 May 2021

                      Does anyone know what are the pros and cons and the differences of this VS the Android emulator?

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                        • 25 May 2021

                        Anonymous, 25 May 2021better to wait for the MTK+Nvidia, and Exynos+Navi APUs ins... moreThis aint a high performance machine its a cheap dev kit... O-O

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                          • 25 May 2021

                          ARM I hope will be getting game support ASAP older games may run fine even on potato but ARM in new games needs all the help it can get...

                            DrakeX, 25 May 2021They could've done this sooo early instead of 11 month... moreI agree, and we have intel to thank for that, they didn't have the guts to switch to arm architecture because it would help their competition, I hope they're happy they are still marginally the best of the weak, because this was a golden opportunity to catch up on apple in software.

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 25 May 2021

                              better to wait for the MTK+Nvidia, and Exynos+Navi APUs instead, this is utter crap

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                                • 25 May 2021

                                DrakeX, 25 May 2021They could've done this sooo early instead of 11 month... moreYes

                                  This looks interesting. If the Windows 10 ARM app and also the x86-x64 software emulation can easily run with the 7c CPU no problem at all, it should be a breeze for 8c and 8cx CPU.

                                    They could've done this sooo early instead of 11 months after what Apple did so that by now we'd have a stable marketplace of native ARM apps.

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