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Sad. It was reported that MS was contractually committed to Qualcomm for 5-7 years as of '16, so I would imagine this is the end of the road. Windows on ARM wo
by tiahura 2y ago
Sad. It was reported that MS was contractually committed to Qualcomm for 5-7 years as of '16, so I would imagine this is the end of the road.
Windows on ARM works on the RPi4. I would have to think other ARM license holders could match whatever x86 emu optimizations Qualcomm had come up with without too much trouble, and MS may even get a license to continue to use them?
I'm looking forward to learn what MS's future plans are.
- wtallis 2y agoThis isn't a cancellation of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips for laptops, just a cancellation of their FUBARed dev kit that was already delayed to the point that the only reason for them to keep trying to ship it was save face.
- SG- 2y agothis is just about the dev kit they tried to make themselves. turns out there's expertise needed to make, ship and support and actual entire system.
- kyriakos 2y agolooks like they should get someone like asus to build / distribute it for them.
- rty32 2y agoThis is probably a money losing business for the unit. Qualcomm needs to pay manufacturers a lot of money to get it going. I am not sure Qualcomm cares enough about that.
- kyriakos 2y agoIt wouldn't be marketed as a devkit. It would be sold the same way nuc and mini PCs are sold. There is a market for them.