It’s only been less than a month since the official big debut of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X series of Arm-based chips created for Microsoft’s latest ambition of Copilot+ AI PCs. The announcement was big and raved quite the storm in the laptop scene but that spotlight is gonna shift soon if recent movements from MediaTek are true.
Normally or widely known for its range of smartphone SoCs alongside things like WiFi cards, MediaTek howling in from Taiwan is currently preparing its own AI PC chipset slated for late 2025 according to a Reuters report.
Despite we don’t know if next year’s trend will still be 95% of companies slapping the “AI” term in every product and solution they offer, the collaboration between industry leaders and partners seems to project such a future.
Following sources quoted by The Verge, Windows on Arm will soon end its exclusivity with Qualcomm this year so other Arm-based chips, including MediaTek, can technically run the OS in any system they want.
Not only the Taiwanese firm, but even US giants NVIDIA and AMD will be doing it as well. However, this is the current known information and we don’t know whether Team Green and Team Red will cram some of their own “secret sauce” to make their Arm chips much more unique and powerful (and possibly a little bit proprietary. You know, corporate secret and stuff).
So, only time will tell if the Arm architecture will finally make some progress and punch a dent into the “oh-so-stagnant” x86 laptop market from its failed attempt more than 10 years ago but that’s more to blame on Windows on Arm, the Surface RT idea is kind of okay and innovative for its time though.
Additional Sources: United Daily News
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