Microsoft and Qualcomm reportedly have an exclusivity contract for Windows on ARM that’s expiring soon
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- Anonymous
- teu
- 25 Nov 2021
Must be the shittiest exclusivity deal in the world. it achieved nothing for both the companies. now there are so far behind apple and won't ever be able to catch up.
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- GuruMurthy
- rKa
- 24 Nov 2021
Yes when window arm is chipset inset device will get more options and latest features will come so we can use like window system
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- Carel
- fX9
- 23 Nov 2021
AngryLithuanian, 23 Nov 2021So this is why it's taking so long for Windows trully ... moreMicrisoft has been to busy with world politics.
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- AngryLithuanian
- C9n
- 23 Nov 2021
So this is why it's taking so long for Windows trully shine on ARM. Apple is already on 3rd gen development of their chips and Windows on ARM has been behind the competition since 2016. Jeez Microsoft you trully are your own worst enemy.
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- Vikass17
- Dks
- 23 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 23 Nov 2021Yes, they made a chip. The Snapdragon 8cx series. They were... moreThey were just overclocked smartphone chips. It wasn't the fault of chip.
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- Adul Al Salami Kebab
- gx$
- 23 Nov 2021
Apple M series chips once they can run Windows is gonna beat anything they have I bet, would be funny if Apple sold their M chips to Microsoft lol
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- Almand
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- 23 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 23 Nov 2021Yes, they made a chip. The Snapdragon 8cx series. They were... moreI thought Microsoft designed their own chip with the help of Qualcomm.
Anyway, I hope Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, Huawei, Intel, AMD all get into this so that hopefully we customers get better chips due to competition.
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- Anonymous
- TL%
- 23 Nov 2021
Almand, 23 Nov 2021Did they make a chip? anyway, I'd blame Microsoft for... moreYes, they made a chip. The Snapdragon 8cx series. They were not good chips at all and ran Windows ARM very poorly.
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- Almand
- v@H
- 23 Nov 2021
Anonymous, 23 Nov 2021Qualcomm laptop chips were complete rubbish and failed to r... moreDid they make a chip?
anyway, I'd blame Microsoft for not having a propper laptop with ARM. It doesn't look like Microsoft is serious about having windows on ARM platform.
May be now, they will get a little serious, seeing how well Apple is doing.
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 23 Nov 2021
Jokes of the year 🤣🤣🤣
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- AnonD-762416
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- 23 Nov 2021
They've had exclusivity and they wasted all that on a single tablet? I guess it takes a lot of manpower having people spam the internet of the greatness of their processors. Maybe focus on actually making and selling things instead?
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- Anonymous
- Kxb
- 23 Nov 2021
its sounds like 8cx news
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- Anonymous
- UG4
- 23 Nov 2021
Over the years, Qualcomm keep trying to beat the A Series chip and failed. M series chip pull ahead even more.
Samsung goes hand in hand with Qualcomm in terms of performance.
As of now, no chip design can exceed Apple's performance per watt.
So the best performance for ARM windows, is still buying a M1 Macbook and run VM.
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- Anonymous
- TL%
- 23 Nov 2021
Qualcomm laptop chips were complete rubbish and failed to run Windows ARM properly. The exclusivity deal was a farce and Microsoft should've opened up to HiSilicon, Samsung and MediaTek making chips for Windows ARM as well.
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- Anonymous
- gJ1
- 23 Nov 2021
SA007, 23 Nov 2021Ahha! Good riddance. Hope it doesn't get renewed since... moreDon't know. In fact, I wonder if Qualcomm uses the same architecture as Apple M1 with RAM unified memory on board, we will have the equivalent of CPU perf / power consumption. I was always a PC die-hard but must admit ARM because all of a sudden interesting.
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- Anonymous
- vIg
- 23 Nov 2021
Would be great to have top 1000 windows games to get compiled for ARM.
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- SA007
- rK6
- 23 Nov 2021
Ahha! Good riddance. Hope it doesn't get renewed since having competition is a good thing: monopolies suck!
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- dbjungle
- jMG
- 23 Nov 2021
Maybe the compute chips will have current gen cores after they get some competition.