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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago, if you wanted a Windows on Arm laptop, you faced two huge problems. The first was that software support for Windows on Arm was dismal, with relatively few companies porting their ...

Microsoft has introduced a new x86-64 emulator called PRISM with the latest Windows 11 update, aimed at improving the performance of Intel and AMD code on ARM-based Windows laptops. Designed to boost ...

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 ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

Chrome is landing on a new platform: Windows on Arm. We don’t have an official announcement yet, but X user Pedro Justo was the first to spot that the Chrome Canary page now quietly hosts binaries for ...