A new report arises from XDA-Developers that Microsoft and Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal to only officially only support Windows on ARM on Qualcomm-powered devices. Given the collaboration that the two companies invested to make Windows on ARM possible, the exclusivity is arguably justified. Qualcomm currently supplies a few chipsets for machines running Windows on ARM including the Snapdragon 7x Gen2 Compute, Snapdragon 8X compute, and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 Compute. A contract between the two tech giants does explain why we haven’t seen wider adoption of Windows on ARM on more...
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_and_qualcomm_reportedly_have_an_exclusivity_contract_for_windows_on_arm_thats_expiring_soo-news-51953.php
