Nvidia Tegra X1

[monstercameron]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-testing-chrome-os-with-nvidias-tegra-x1-super-chip/

Seems that Google is trying the Tegra X1... why nVIDIA is not giving more for their chip? Also they shuld leave big LITTLE in create their own custom chips

You are a few years too late if you didn't know that nvidia had the own big.little technique before most of its contemporaries.

 

[Thala]

Not a chance. With Windows 10, Microsoft is limiting use of ARM processors to tablets which are 7" and less, and mobile phones- and both of those platforms will not run desktop applications. >8" tablets, laptops, and desktops will all use x86.

Yup, stupid decision by Mircosoft to drop Windows RT. For Microsoft it should have been of strategic importance to support Windows on ARM (e.g. full featured Windows for ARM like Windows RT). In addition they should have opened desktop development for WoA as Windows RT had all the liberaries, subsystems and API available to run desktop apps.

Now they are back in the x86 corner with no way out...

If you know of a categorical denial of availablility of Windows 10 on larger form-factor devices with ARM processors, I would be interested to have a reference.

Well if you take the fact, that Microsoft does not plan to have an upgrade path to Windows 10 for their own ARM tablets (Surface 1+2) it seems likely that they dumped the build path for ARM for Windows 10. And even if they have not dumped it (and it is internally still available), they at least would need a single device on the market featuring (full) Windows for ARM in order to gain traction in the developer community.

 

[dark zero]

INBF Windows 10 mobile stops to work on ARM devices and will only work on x86 ones. If MS is trying to work With Qualcomm and they are failing hard with their chips according to the latest news, I hardly see MS continuing the project.

Meanwhile nVIDIA will have a hard time despite the advantage of having a superior GPU. Their CPU needs to improve more in order to change MS opinión.