The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

We are at a very peculiar crossroads in terms of technological transitions, with three major competitors in the CPU arms (pun intended) race. We have x86, ARM and RISC-V (although RISC-V is pretty new ...

Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation and another year or so of ...

Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X ...

MediaTek is designing chips to challenge Qualcomm’s dominance in the Windows on Arm ecosystem. However, Qualcomm has signed an exclusivity deal with Microsoft until the end of 2024. If not renewed by ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processors are the fastest ARM-based chips available for Windows laptops to date, making PCs with ARM chips competitive with their Intel and AMD-powered counterparts for the ...

For over a decade and a half, Qualcomm has been chasing the dream of an Arm-based Windows laptop that offers compelling performance and battery life. Although there have been some small victories ...

2026 will bring new chips and further software improvements. But competition is heating up too. 2026 will bring new chips and further software improvements. But competition is heating up too. is a ...

With ARM processors increasingly becoming part of the desktop ecosystem, porting code that was written for x86_64 platforms is both necessary and a massive undertaking. For many codebases a simple ...

The era of Arm-powered Windows laptops is swiftly approaching with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite CPU scheduled to be released by the middle of this year. However, the availability of compatible ...