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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 2012, the progenitor Raspberry Pi board brought the Arm architecture to the forefront of the SBC market. Since then, Arm devices have ruled the Single-Board Computer domain with an iron fist, ...

Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.

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 ...

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 ...