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It's probably not fair to blame Microsoft for the performance of a chip developed by Qualcomm. At one point Qualcomm developed it's own high performance custom
by GeekyBear 6y ago
It's probably not fair to blame Microsoft for the performance of a chip developed by Qualcomm.
At one point Qualcomm developed it's own high performance custom ARM cores, but after a huge fumble on their transition to 64 bit, they just gave up and started licensing stock ARM cores.
ARM is getting ready to license a higher performance extra-big core to anyone interested, so there should be some movement there in the not too distant future.
However, you can definitely blame Microsoft for making a bad call on emulating legacy Win32 software.
They tried to transition to ARM based WindowsRT without supporting legacy x86 software at all. Even today, Windows on ARM doesn't support legacy x86 64 bit programs.
- panpanna 6y ago> they just gave up and started licensing stock ARM cores. This is not correct. Their CPUs are heavily modified, just not very well executed. The problem is that Qualcomm puts most its efforts on other parts of the soc, such as the stupid ML coprocessor. Now you have like 5-6 different DSP-like coprocessors. Edit: oh, and 5G. They spent $$$$ to be the first with working 5G modems that nobody needs.