Today's mobile chips would be quite capable years ago of coming face-to-face with the Pentiums of yesteryear. Progress in this regard is such that not long after we will be able to launch operating systems that it would never have occurred to us to have a device in the palm of our hand that does not exceed 5 or 6 inches in screen size.
So it is normal that Qualcomm, with its great experience in mobile, is already preparing to enter the market of desktop computers. It was on Thursday of last week that Microsoft held an event called the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) in which Qualcomm made a rather surprising appearance.
The two companies announced that they are partnering to bring a Windows 10 experience complete with Qualcomm processors, which would start with the next Snapdragon.
This is important news, especially since Qualcomm processors are based on an architecture that, until now, had been used in computers desktop on some Linux distributions. The new Snapdragon will be the first chip of its kind to run a 64-bit system other than iOS or Android.
Microsoft and Qualcomm stated that laptops with Snapdragon They would be available next year, so the deal has been in the works for some time now. Such devices could work with Windows 10, which would allow to launch programs and apps that use a lot of the CPU, while it could offer a great battery life and a very slim design.
In the demo, Microsoft shows a computer with Snapdragon running Adobe Photoshop, one of those programs that is well known for its excessive consumption of PC resources. Now one might wonder when we could have a dual boot with Android and Windows 10.