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1. Currently only x86 processors are able to run Windows 10
2. Initially laptops with ARM chipsets will be launched
3. Company didn't mention specific timeline last year

Microsoft and Qualcomm announced a year ago that Windows 10 will get support for ARM chipsets, particularly, Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoCs. While the organizations said that the principal PCs with ARM chipsets will come in 2017, there was never a particular course of events specified for the launch. Presently, Qualcomm has uncovered that the main such portable workstations will be launched in fourth quarter this year.

Qualcomm, in its most recent financial specialist call, announced that the primary cellular tablet with Windows 10 and organization's Snapdragon 835 SoC will stop before the current year's over.

Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, said that Snapdragon 835 processor is venturing into portable PC outlines that run Windows 10 and is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter, according to a transcript of the income call.

As Windows 10 gadgets currently just run on x86 chipsets from Intel or AMD, these will be the primary gadgets to run Windows 10 that don't have a processor with x86 architecture. Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, affirmed a year ago that the underlying focus would be on portable workstations but the organization has imagined an endless biological system of Windows 10 ARM gadgets.

"We're pondering stage that supports little screens, vast screens, gadgets without any screens by any means, head-mounted presentations, thus what can these gadget producers build will truly be up to them," Myerson said at the time.


Not long ago, the Redmond-based organization said that it is working with Qualcomm and Cavium to convey support for ARM chips to Windows Server OS. The server used in the demo kept running on Qualcomm's 10nm Centriq 2400 and Cavium's lead second era 64-bit ThunderX2 ARMv8-A server processor-both particularly composed ARM-based chips implied for cloud servers.