For Qualcomm to truly succeed, Microsoft has to step up its game and take Windows on Arm seriously
www.xda-developers.com
Microsoft must play their part now.
I really dislike the recent tendency around here of posting links to an article and adding one line that gives absolutely zero insight into the nature of the linked article.
It is also against forum rules:
Do not just drop links without comment. People need to know what are in the links before deciding whether to click on it.
It is your job as a poster to comment on it.
As for the linked article, that has to be the least inlightening article I have managed to read through in a while.
The first half absolutely trashes Qualcomm for going with TSMC's 4nm process instead of 3nm like Apple and can be succinctly reduced to the following quote:
article said:
there is no denying that the 3nm process would bring sizable performance and efficiency gains to the table, and actually allow Qualcomm to compete with Apple.
That statement is of extremely questionable accuracy. There is no reason at present to believe the difference between TSMC's best shipping 3nm and 4nm nodes is more than a few percent - hardly "sizeable" gains.
It seems unlikely that the success or failure of Qualcomm's X Elite is going to come down to the chosen process node.
The second half of the article might have a point, but unfortunately not a single example or shred of proof is given of the headline thesis that "Microsoft has to take Windows on Arm more seriously". Instead, variations of this are simply repeated ad nauseam:
"more worrying is the state of Windows on Arm"
" Microsoft’s endeavors materialized a bit too late, leaving Qualcomm behind in no man’s land."
"[Qualcomm] will inevitably be set back by Microsoft’s integration."
There are no examples and no arguments to bolster those claims. The lone tangential example is the lack of a native Google Chrome for WoA. However, the slightest bit of research would have shown that Google removed the single biggest obstacle to full native Chrome on WoA, namely native Widevine support, presumably in advance of a native binary. Chromium (and Edge + Firefox) are already available.