windows on arm

Unitech's announcement of the RT112 Windows tablet marks a milestone: a purpose-built, industrial-grade Windows-on-ARM device that pairs Qualcomm's Dragonwing-class QCM6490 platform with Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, promising full Windows application compatibility, long battery life, and...

Microsoft quietly issued a platform branch that will land on new Arm PCs early next year, and the timing, partners and engineering rationale now make clear why Windows 11 version 26H1 exists — but also why most users should treat it as a device-specific plumbing release rather than a consumer...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus is the company’s clearest attempt to push on-device AI, improved efficiency and Copilot+ compatibility into mainstream Windows laptops, promising a notable step up in neural processing, single‑thread responsiveness and wireless connectivity for thin‑and‑light PCs...

Qualcomm’s announcement of the Snapdragon X2 Plus at CES 2026 reshapes the mid‑tier of the Windows 11 Copilot+ PC market: it pairs a third‑generation Oryon CPU with an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU, Wi‑Fi 7 connectivity and optional 5G, promising faster single‑core performance, materially lower power...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus arrived at CES as the company’s strategic mid-tier salvo in a rapidly intensifying arms race for Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs — a chip designed to deliver sizable on-device AI performance, multi-day battery life, and mainstream price accessibility without surrendering...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Plus arrives at CES 2026 with a clear aim: bring meaningful on-device AI and long battery life to a much wider range of Windows 11 Copilot+ laptops, shifting the conversation from elite flagship machines to affordable mainstream notebooks. Background Qualcomm’s...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus promises to be the practical tipping point for Arm‑powered Windows laptops — not because it is the flashiest chip in the room, but because it targets the price bands and real‑world power envelopes where most buyers and businesses actually live. Early hands‑on...

Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon X2 Plus family overturns assumptions about Arm performance on Windows laptops, claiming dramatic wins over current Intel and AMD mobile chips in CPU, GPU, and AI workloads — but the numbers come with important caveats that should shape how enthusiasts and OEMs...

Lenovo’s leaked lineup of Snapdragon X2-powered Copilot+ laptops for CES 2026 redraws the map for Windows on Arm devices: a premium Yoga Slim 7x built around Qualcomm’s top-bin X2 Elite silicon sits alongside three IdeaPad models that favor the newly revealed Snapdragon X2 Plus platform...

Paul Thurrott’s RunAsRadio appearance — recorded as episode #1016 — framed 2025 as a decisive, messy year for Windows: leadership changes, a renewed engineering re-unification, an aggressive hardware-first AI strategy, and renewed enthusiasm for Windows on Arm that together set the stage for a...

Windows 11’s infrastructure is quietly reshaping itself under the hood, and the result this month is a rare kind of performance story: significant, measurable gains for core hardware subsystems driven largely by architectural changes and a handful of coordinated vendor updates. Background...

The tech industry’s holiday glow is fading into a quiet, exhausted winter: the big consumer names—Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon—still ship remarkable products, but the spark of fandom that once turned early adopters into evangelists has dimmed. What remains is a mixture of fatigue...

Radxa’s Dragon Q6A has taken a notable step toward making Arm single‑board computers (SBCs) a practical option for Windows users: Radxa released an official Windows 11 preview image for the Dragon Q6A, and the early preview already supports core I/O and accelerated multimedia when the vendor...

When Qualcomm and Microsoft set out to make Windows 11 on Arm actually matter for mainstream users, most observers expected incremental gains: better battery life, a few niche apps working, and some polished PR. Instead, a coordinated engineering push—centered on the Prism x64-to-Arm emulator...

Microsoft’s recent weekly roundup makes clear that the tail end of 2025 is busy: Windows 11 is getting targeted gaming improvements, the Prism emulator on Windows on Arm has been broadened to support modern x86 instruction sets, vendors are issuing new drivers validated for the 25H2 enablement...

Microsoft’s latest weekly roundup signals a focused push to shore up gaming on Windows 11 while also tightening driver support for the newly enabled 25H2 release — a mix of meaningful wins and fresh cautionary signs for PC enthusiasts and IT teams alike. The headline items are an upgrade to the...

If you want a tablet that can double as a laptop, the choice often narrows to two premium paths: Microsoft’s Surface Pro family running full Windows 11, or Apple’s iPad Pro running iPadOS on Apple Silicon. The Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch positions itself as a portable Windows PC with Copilot+...

Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 stopped being incremental and started feeling strategic: Microsoft and partners focused less on single‑title gimmicks and more on solving long‑standing platform problems — shader stutter, inconsistent handheld performance, and sparse Arm support — by changing...

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Mini X arrives as one of the most consequential Windows-on-Arm mini PCs yet: compact, quietly powerful for everyday productivity, and priced aggressively enough to force a rethink of compact Windows desktops — especially for organizations and users who want a near-silent...

Microsoft's latest push to broaden and accelerate the Windows gaming story on Arm represents a clear inflection point: the company is not merely tinkering at the edges, but actively changing the platform stack — from emulator capabilities and anti-cheat to graphics delivery and the Xbox app — to...