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 ...
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 ...
Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over at the Macintoshian Achaia section of the forum, there is quite some talk about the (assumed) impending move from Intel CPUs to Apple's own ARM CPUs to power the Mac. A lot of people assume that ...