Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

Wow, This is what I was talking about when I got down voted two or 3 days ago. Yes, ARM/Qualcomm in no position to compete with INTEL high-end desktop CPUs. But they are perfectly capable of competing in low-end market and multi-processor environment. This will hurt INTEL in long term very badly. ARM will come to the desktop. No matter we like it or not.

Re: Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

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Post by merkaloid » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC

Noctix wrote: post #4

I don't see the purpose of this. Current Windows on ARM has pretty non existent support by developers.

x86 emulation will make life easier initially. But if these devices become popular, so will UWP apps.

Re: Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

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Post by yread » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC

There is a bit more detail here (with pictures)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Prototype-of-Snapdragon-835-po...

Re: Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

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Post by adzm » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

speps wrote: post #5

Noctix wrote: post #4

I don't see the purpose of this. Current Windows on ARM has pretty non existent support by developers.

I think you missed that news : https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/windows-10-will-seamless...

Have there been any public previews of this? I'm still trying to figure out how they can emulate x86 without significant performance problems due to the different memory concurrency models

Re: Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE

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Post by walterbell » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

> the new operating system will include x86 emulation, giving it the ability to run 32-bit Windows desktop applications unmodified

Is this emulation done with a combination of hardware & software?