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Qualcomm: PCs with ARM and Windows will be an alternative in 2024

User interest in ARM and Windows PCs has so far been nil. Microsoft’s attempts since the launch of Surface RT have been as numerous as unsuccessful and the recent alliance with Qualcomm has not improved the situation.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has promised reverse the situation from 2024. At the last earnings call with investors, he said that “expects to see a turning point in the Windows PC segment with the Snapdragon platform in 2024 based on a significant number of achievements that will occur until then”.

PCs with ARM and Windows, following in the footsteps of Apple

Qualcomm is the world’s leading independent supplier of chips for mobile devices. But a PC is something else. Everyone looks at Apple and the main objective is to achieve the results of the silicon program. Those from Cupertino have almost completed the hardware transition with great success for the integration with the software and cost reduction due to the own design of the chips. And in handling an ARM architecture in PCs that no other has achieved.

Until now. Qualcomm promises what it can do for you: improve the performance of the chips, their compatibility with the most advanced connectivity standards and lower their energy consumption. It will also attract more OEMs to use its designs and make Snapdragon PCs an alternative to Intel/AMD-powered PCs in a couple of years.

And the software? Microsoft has to put the batteries compulsorily. If the lack of performance of the Windows computers on ARM that have arrived so far could be solved in the future with a better level of hardware as Qualcomm promises, the big problem so far is the software.

ARM and Windows PCs

And it has persisted since its inception. Supporting the huge Windows ecosystem and especially the Win32 applications that Microsoft would like to kill off, but which are used by millions of users, is a daunting task that Microsoft has not been able to solve. And attract developers who until now have simply had no interest in ARM and Windows PCs.

We value Apple’s successes, but it must be said to be fair that Microsoft has it more complicated. It doesn’t have Apple’s soft-hard control and the Windows ecosystem is huge and vastly more diverse than Mac’s. Qualcomm can deliver on promises of improvement in its PC chips, but much more is needed to appeal to mainstream consumers. .

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