Windows 10 on ARM is officially on the scene! Qualcomm, while announcing its latest Snapdragon 835 chip, confirmed that the SoC offers full support for Microsoft’s operating system.
Full version of Microsoft’s operating system, so to say.
The chip giant provided details of this new Snapdragon 835 processor at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, confirming what is clearly one of the most exciting and anticipated technologies of the year — the ability for the mobile chip to run the full version of Windows 10.
Not only does this open up avenues for the upcoming Surface Phone, it also allows PC makers to bring along cheap and affordable Windows 10 hardware powered by this new SoC.
This is what Qualcomm said about these new capabilities:
“The Snapdragon 835 is designed to support next-generation entertainment experiences and connected cloud services for premium-tier consumer and enterprise devices, including smartphones, VR/AR head-mounted displays, IP cameras, tablets, mobile PCs and other devices running a variety of OS’s including Android and Windows 10 with support for legacy Win32 apps.”
Seeing the Snapdragon 835 support full Windows 10 can only be good news for Microsoft, making it possible for the company to invent a new product category and build a more advanced Windows powered phone that can run Win32 apps when connected to a bigger screen.
Those, traditional desktop software programs, so to say.
Redmond has already demonstrated Adobe Photoshop running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, confirmed soon after that the Snapdragon 835 will be the first processor to bring these capabilities to the retail market.
And now we have official confirmation from Qualcomm too.
2017 could be some year, eh?
source:windows10update
