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Microsoft surface arm11/1/2023 While Microsoft hasn't released any specs yet, I can already tell you it will have a Gigabit Ethernet port, Wi-Fi 6 support, and an HDMI port for the video. The desktop PC itself is expected to be about the size of a Mac mini. Hmmm, a Windows desktop that relies on the cloud - where I have heard that idea before? This chip is meant to make it easier for the Windows PCs to shift workloads seamlessly between the PC and the cloud as needed. The new machine will also include what Computerworld's Rob Enderle calls an Azure Compute Unit (ACU). In the past, Microsoft has shied away from cutting-edge ARM technology. This would also represent a step forward for Windows on ARM. Rumor has it that the Surface team is building it with Qualcomm and that it will ship with a flagship Snapdragon System on a Chip (SoC). Qualcomm Technologies will also be providing a Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for this new Windows toolkit. ![]() It will have four of these CPUs and a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) programming. The Project Volterra PC is expected to run on a yet-to-be-named Snapdragon processor. ![]() Leopards can change their spots! I'm not ready to declare that WinARM will replace Wintel, but this is a serious hardware step forward for Microsoft. In other words, Microsoft will give programmers everything they need to build programs on ARM that can actually take advantage of its architectural virtues. Project Volterra will include (deep breath): Instead of emulating x86 on ARM, which always guaranteed the programs would be slow, Microsoft this time is providing an end-to-end software development kit (SDK) and programming tools that will be ARM native.
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