Monday, November 22, 2021

Microsoft and Qualcomm reportedly have an exclusivity contract for Windows on ARM that’s expiring soon

A new report arises from XDA-Developers that Microsoft and Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal to only officially only support Windows on ARM on Qualcomm-powered devices. Given the collaboration that the two companies invested to make Windows on ARM possible, the exclusivity is arguably justified. Qualcomm currently supplies a few chipsets for machines running Windows on ARM including the Snapdragon 7x Gen2 Compute, Snapdragon 8X compute, and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 Compute. A contract between the two tech giants does explain why we haven’t seen wider adoption of Windows on ARM on more...

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