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

agentrfr said:
iTunes and Photoshop? Seems a little intense for a VM to handle. I'da thunk they are doing some sort of software interpreter of some sort
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Neither is hard to run off VM.

You can render 4k video to Azure Cloud using VM...
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Emulation.
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Yip a mere VM won't be enough, you'll need an emulator of sorts get get across the architecture divide and there are some VMs that can do this. You can either emulate the hardware or do on the fly code conversion.

Something like QEMU will do the job for example.
 
genetic said:
So when do you expect a small mobile chip to match a high-end Xeon server chip?

A high-end Xeon series (sometimes costing $100's) per CPU is in a completely different league.
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It's not a small mobile chip - it has 12x the core count, and likely at least 12x the cache of the mobile ARMs. It will also run in a completely different power envelope to mobile, allowing it to clock higher. I am sure that it will also have NEON for SIMD, which is optional (not on all mobile chips). Also, a very high end Xeon is around $4k.
 
genetic said:
So when do you expect a small mobile chip to match a high-end Xeon server chip?

A high-end Xeon series (sometimes costing $100's) per CPU is in a completely different league.
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The article cguy linked to is already talking 48 cores per socket.
These are real cores, not play-play hyperthreading cores.
 
Arthur said:
Expect the announcement for Server on ARM some time in 2017.
Genisys said:
That will never happen. Servers are expensive for a reason. Imagine running SQL server on an ARM cpu.
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It just did.

Windows Server ported to Qualcomm's ARM server chip. Repeat, Windows Server ported to ARM server chip

Et tu, Microsoft? Then fall, Intel

8 Mar 2017 at 14:47, Chris Williams

Microsoft has ported its Windows Server operating system to the Qualcomm Centriq – a 64-bit ARM-compatible server-grade system-on-chip.

In a move that will pile further pressure on Intel – which dominates the data center market but is already unnerved by AMD's Naples server processor – Qualcomm and Microsoft will today show off Windows Server running on a 10nm Centriq 2400 system at the Open Compute Project Summit in California.
 
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This is good for everyone...the giant with the financial muscle is being attacked from all sides. Can only lead to better products or pricing (or both) for consumers.
 
First, Qualcomm’s System on a Chip (Soc) designs have improved so dramatically in the past four years that their performance rivals that of mainstream Intel Core chipsets for PCs.
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I highly doubt that.

Though, this is good news.
 
I'd be interested to see the comparison results of your claim?
 
backstreetboy said:
It already beats their Atom chips and are rivalling their Core M chips now...
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How would you even BEGIN to know that since there are no public benchmarks or performance numbers for the Centriq 2400 chip yet, they are only planning on selling them in H2 2017.
 
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