ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs!? Hell Yes!

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Paul Thurrott said:
In an unexpected move, Microsoft tonight announced a major new partnership with Qualcomm to port Windows 10 to ARM. No, not Windows 10 Mobile. Real Windows 10 on a new generation of portable PCs.
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https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/86298/arm-based-windows-10-portable-pcs-hell-yes

Haven't seen this posed, but this is big - really big!

They demoed it on a HP Elite x3 phone. It now suddenly makes sense why HP went with Windows on that phone. A number of things didn't make sense for this phone, but now a lot of things suddenly fell into place.

This will be a massive game changer.
 
Even better, Windows 10 on ARM will supply a long-rumored feature: The ability to run 32-bit Win32/x86 desktop applications—Apple iTunes, Adobe Photoshop, Google Chrome, whatever—directly on the system, unchanged.
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I love their application choice. Itunes is one of the most horrible windows programs in existence. And Chrome runs on every android tablet.

The tech I would like to see is dual architecture Laptops. You have an ARM chip that you use for casual work like web browsing and videos. Then have an x86 chip on standby when you need to fire up a more computationally intensive task.
 
Arthur said:
Looking forward to this.

Expect the announcement for Server on ARM some time in 2017.
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That will never happen. Servers are expensive for a reason. Imagine running SQL server on an ARM cpu.
 
Wow, do they have native x86/64 support on the ARMs? I'd love to know how they managed to get that right!
 
A real threat for Intel. Imagine hundred thousands of miniature ARM servers in datacentre. The biggest limitation in datacetre is a heat and power usage, then space is important too. Microsoft smells a business.

ARM for desktop - not sure. Remember IBM Power PC?
 
[video=youtube;A_GlGglbu1U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U[/video]
 
Interesting. If it makes hardware cheaper that's great. But Windows isn't free.
 
Genisys said:
Please not. This won't be fun. An ARM processor will never compare against a Xeon beast ever.
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It really depends on the work load and price point. It won't compete in number crunching, or single threaded performance, but 48 cores may manage higher scalar throuput (and also have more stable latency characteristics) than a price comparable Intel processor (the 22-core Intel processors are ridiculously expensive).
 
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