Windows laptops with Snapdragon 835 coming at the end of this year

The first laptops with the Windows 10 operating system that run on a Snapdragon 835 will appear in the fourth quarter of this year. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf has announced this.

The Qualcomm CEO announced the release period in an explanation of the quarterly figures, according to the transcript of Seeking Alpha. He speaks of a ‘disruption’ at the existing providers of PCs, without naming manufacturers who work on Windows 10 laptops with the Snapdragon chips. According to The Verge, Lenovo is one of those companies.

The combination of an ARM chip with Windows 10 is possible through the development of x86 emulation on the operating system. Microsoft is working on this and will add the functionality to the OS in September, with the release of the Redstone 3 update. Microsoft previously had a separate version for ARM processors, Windows RT, but it only ran Windows Runtime apps, not x86 applications. In Windows 10, Microsoft extended Windows Runtime to the Universal Windows Platform. The Windows RT platform has died a quiet death.

Qualcomm is also working with Microsoft to support Windows Server for the Centriq chips, which Qualcomm makes at 10nm for servers.