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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21509637" data-attributes="member: 218596">ARM-based Windows 10 Devices Expected to Launch in Late 2017                                                               <img src="https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/qc-640x353.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Microsoft has dabbled with ARM support in Windows over  the years, most famously (and disastrously) when it launched Windows  RT. That stripped down flavor of Windows 8 was a commercial and critical  flop, but Microsoft aims to make ARM-based PCs a thing in the era of Windows 10.  Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf provided an update on the future of  Windows on ARM in a recent investor call, saying the first  Qualcomm-based Windows PCs will be available at the end of this year.Microsoft and Qualcomm first revealed this plan in December 2016,  but there was little in the way of details at the time. What we do know  is Microsoft has learned from the past, and it won’t be going down the  same path as Windows RT. That version of the OS lacked support for true  desktop apps, relying completely on the so-called Modern UI apps that  rolled out with Windows 8. In its new take on ARM PCs, Microsoft has  developed a built-in emulator that can run regular desktop apps on the  ARM architecture.Mollenkopf made his comments in connection with  the Snapdragon 835, the latest chip from Qualcomm that is currently only  available in the Galaxy S8. This is a quad-core chip based on  Qualcomm’s custom Kryo 280 64-bit CPU core. In current configurations,  it can be clocked as high as 2.45GHz.In a demo last December, Microsoft showed a Qualcomm  Snapdragon 820 running Windows 10 without any appreciable lag. It  worked fine in Edge and even booted up Photoshop in a respectable amount  of time. The main selling point here is efficiency — a PC powered by an  ARM SoC could run for much longer, and the on-die support for cellular  modems means it’ll be easier for OEMs to include mobile data.ARM  chips should also be cheaper than Intel or AMD, which means cheaper  machines. Microsoft has seen less expensive devices like Chromebooks and  iPads eat into sales of Windows laptops, and many of these devices run  on ARM. However, ARM-based Chromebooks tend to use less powerful (and  therefore cheaper) ARM chips. Windows needs the power of something like  the Snapdragon 835 to be viable. OEMs might find the savings over Intel  parts to be smaller than expected.The first wave of ARM Windows  devices will come from brands other than Microsoft — Lenovo is rumored  to be planning a convertible laptop of some sort. We may get a peek at  some early ARM-based Windows devices at the Build conference in May.</blockquote>

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