Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10

Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by aamederen on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:14AM (#13128906)

Do processors support operating systems now? I thought the reverse was true.

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Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by Maarten88 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:49AM (#13129375)

The news is hidden near the end of the article. There is rumor that Microsoft is working on some sort of x86 virtualization/emulation on ARM, for their Continuum technology, and this news is that Qualcomm is building something in their ARM chips to make that possible.

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Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by IMcD23 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:24AM (#13129486)

Not a rumor anymore. They just announced they are working on it in partnership with Qualcomm and it will be available next year.

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Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by throwaway40483 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:40AM (#13129348)

Many may consider parent as snark but this is a really great point. I wish the article had elaborated on this.

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Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by digi_owl on Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:51AM (#13129765)

Well i could have sworn that both Intel and AMD have recently announced that they will not support anything older than Windows 10 on their products going forward...

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Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10 by crazysim on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:23AM (#13129108)

I am guessing this is the norm in ARM. It seems much of the fires in the Android update scene can be attributed to this.

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