Color me skeptical. The article makes it sound like it's achieving running x86 apps through emulation, but the video shows it running a game (World of Tanks) at a smooth framerate. I can hardly believe an ARM device emulating an x86 runtime could handle a game like World of Tanks.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51499352]Color me skeptical. The article makes it sound like it's achieving running x86 apps through emulation, but the video shows it running a game (World of Tanks) at a smooth framerate. I can hardly believe an ARM device emulating an x86 runtime could handle a game like World of Tanks.[/QUOTE]
It's the mobile version of World of Tanks
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51499352]Color me skeptical. The article makes it sound like it's achieving running x86 apps through emulation, but the video shows it running a game (World of Tanks) at a smooth framerate. I can hardly believe an ARM device emulating an x86 runtime could handle a game like World of Tanks.[/QUOTE]
I was surprised to see Photoshop CC running as I'm pretty sure Adobe don't provide an ARM build of that software. Maybe Windows 10 running on ARM will do x86 emulation as well as supporting native ARM apps? That or Microsoft have been doing some serious emulator development behind the scenes.
[QUOTE=UberMensch;51502993]I was surprised to see Photoshop CC running as I'm pretty sure Adobe don't provide an ARM build of that software. Maybe Windows 10 running on ARM will do x86 emulation as well as supporting native ARM apps? That or Microsoft have been doing some serious emulator development behind the scenes.[/QUOTE]
the video literally says it "runs an x86 win32 desktop app [...] with no changes thanks to the magical emulation technology we've built into windows 10"
im questioning if you actually watched the video
I'd be a little nervous if I worked for intel right now, at least in their mobile/low power chip department. It may not be a performance beast, but this will be a boon for cheap tablet makers and low cost computers.
Could you image, a Windows 10 plastic-y entry level laptop with a snapdragon cpu for a $100 price point, or less? It may not be a great experience, but if you can surf the web, play facebook games, and work with office, it'll do the trick for most people.
[QUOTE=Lt_C;51506758]I'd be a little nervous if I worked for intel right now, at least in their mobile/low power chip department. It may not be a performance beast, but this will be a boon for cheap tablet makers and low cost computers.
Could you image, a Windows 10 plastic-y entry level laptop with a snapdragon cpu for a $100 price point, or less? It may not be a great experience, but if you can surf the web, play facebook games, and work with office, it'll do the trick for most people.[/QUOTE]
correct. The thing is that for a lot of people performance only needs to be "good enough" and low cost/long battery life are preferable than being able to compile your source code or run demanding video games. If x86 emulation works even remotely good, or MS allows ARM win32 binaries, intel is in serious trouble on the low to mid range. Qualcomm poses a much larger threat to intel than AMD does, because they have money and a product with clear advantages.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;51499466]It's the mobile version of World of Tanks[/QUOTE]
yeah,
it's on both PC an Mobile UWP
so does that mean it already has a working version for mobile?
what's the point :v:
Its simple; Microsoft wants windows 10 to be the norm.
(Pushing devs to use their free tools and free windows 10)
Only then they got a bigger chance to stand against android and other OS-choices.
Its kinda what failed with windows 7 phones.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51508519]This is super great news for my main mobile machine, even if Windows 10 Redstone 2 can't be fully ported (Windows 10 Mobile and IoT runs perfectly), I'd still benefit from developers porting applications to ARM, Windows RT can have Visual Studio 2015 runtime libraries
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[QUOTE]To be clear, Microsoft isn't doing this for all ARM processors, just those produced by Qualcomm[/QUOTE]
Furthermore I think it's only certain Qualcomm chipsets. I wonder if perhaps they added some extensions to make x86 emulation easier?
[QUOTE=Lt_C;51506758]I'd be a little nervous if I worked for intel right now, at least in their mobile/low power chip department. It may not be a performance beast, but this will be a boon for cheap tablet makers and low cost computers.
Could you image, a Windows 10 plastic-y entry level laptop with a snapdragon cpu for a $100 price point, or less? It may not be a great experience, but if you can surf the web, play facebook games, and work with office, it'll do the trick for most people.[/QUOTE]
There are already windows tablets for $100 or less. Intel has abandoned their budget low power department anyways, there's nothing for them to be worried about anymore.
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