Stefan Mileschin

Qualcomm might not be the only sheriff in town when it comes to an upcoming Windows 10 on Snapdragon, or Windows 10 on ARM. Nvidia was asked too.

Nvidia was approached by Microsoft in order to contemplate the same idea, which leaves the possibility of Nvidia coming to this market in the future. Currently Qualcomm is the only ARM partner which is officially doing the ground work for Windows 10 on ARM, and there is a future roadmap of devices.

At some point, you can expect some other companies to join the Windows 10 on ARM game and Nvidia too, as Samsung is definitely on a list of potential candidates. Nvidia’s biggest concern was the lack of client interest which might change after the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 - or a future SoC - goes to market in early 2018. This is currently a learning curve for everyone.

Qualcomm was an obvious choice for Microsoft as it wanted to go after Intel in the PC market and of course, every new adventure takes time. At the same time, Snapdragon 800 series is the best selling ARM high end solution to the market, shipping in millions of devices.

We expect to see some major announcement from Qualcomm before the end of the year with volume shipments of partner devices in early 2018. The company said it will do it within a year since first mentioning it in December of 2016.

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