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Specs of Qualcomm's First ARM Processor Capable of Running Windows 10 Leaks (mspoweruser.com)
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 835's specs have leaked ahead of its CES reveal. An anonymous reader writes: According to the leaked press release, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 sports the Qualcomm Kryo 280 CPU (quad-core), Qualcomm Adreno 540 GPU, and Qualcomm Hexagon DSP to manage the different workloads. All of this combined together will result in a 27% increase in performance when compared to the previous generation. Qualcomm is also making significant improvements with the Snapdragon 835 when it comes to power consumption. To be precise, the Snapdragon 835 consumes 40% less power than the older generation which is supposed to offer the following: "1+ day of talk time, 5+ days of music playback, and 7+ hours of 4K video streaming. Should your phone need more power, Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 provides five hours of battery life for five minutes of charging." Qualcomm stated in the press release that the Snapdragon also comes with substantial improvements to the graphics rendering and virtual reality. According to the company, the Snapdragon 835 includes "game-changing" enhancements to improve audio, intuitive interactions, and vibrant visuals. The processor also offers 25 percent faster 3D graphic rendering and produces 60X display colors than the Snapdragon 820.
And it's absolutely useless.
There doesn't seem to be anything in particular with this SoC that's been tailored to run Windows, so the premise of the article is turned upside down. It isn't the SoC that's capable of running Windows, it's Windows capable of running on this particular SoC. If they can get Windows running on this, then they could get Windows running on about any ARMv8 based device, given device specific drivers.
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
Windows 10 alwas leaks, phone or not phone.
The title is right :
"windows 10 leaks"
After the home and pro edition, the Leaks edition, for everybody.
Leaks ought to be okay for everybody.
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It can run much better OSes as well.
After decades of /. geeks announcing the coming of the "Year of the Linux Desktop !", any time soon !
2017 has finally brought us a new meme : It's going to be the "Year of the Windows smartphone/tablet !" any moment now !
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Seriously : Microsoft has completely and definitely lost this battle ages ago, about the time that Google's Android and Apple's iOS acheived a critical mass in their respective apps online stores.
They are now the dominant eco-systems, on what has been becoming the most used platforms around.
And unlike all the other Linux alternatives on portable devices (e.g.: Jolla's Sailfish OS) that can also run Android apps (in this example, using the official commercial Alien Dalvik, or the community SFDroid) and thus tap into one of the dominant apps eco-system,
Microsoft nearly completely failed at these attempts (at least they managed to save something that was salvageable and give "Windows Service for Linux", a.k.a. "Bash on Windows" a.k.a. GNU/Windows) and is left with a platform that no end user is interested in using, because there's nearly no apps on it, because no developer is interested to develop on an extra 3rd platform that currently has no user base at all.
Hey, Microsoft, how is it to be at the receiving end of the "network effect" that you've been abusing for so many years ?
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
They get paid for licensed patents, but that won't last forever. Well, the patent probably will because patent law is horribly broke, but companies find ways to maneuver around them over time.