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by tibbydudeza 1985 days ago
Is MS not busy looking at doing their own ARM silicon for future Windows powered Surface devices after release of M1 and the failure Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 8cx (we just use ARM reference designs) ???.

They do have the chops for it since they have done Xbox and Hololens and various other devices in-house.
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solarkraft 1985 days ago
It's a rumor. If they're starting now I expect results in 2-5 years and in Azure first.

> They do have the chops for it since they have done Xbox and Hololens and various other devices in-house.

Not sure about the Hololens, but the XBox contains an x86 AMD processor.

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unilynx 1985 days ago
Maybe they are already developing their own "MS1" in secret ?

But even if they are, it would make sense to release Windows 10 for the M1 and getting Win-developers to start porting their applications to ARM, so they could leap-frog Apple on ARM if they manage to build a 'better' ARM SoC

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Hamuko 1985 days ago
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22189450/microsoft-arm-p...

There are rumors.

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