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June Wan/ZDNETMicrosoft is about to announce its next wave of Surface PCs, including two new models that will be powered by Arm-based processors. At Windows Central, Zac Bowden reports that the new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will be unveiled at a Microsoft event on March 21, highlighting the company's first AI PCs.They will be the first Surface PCs to ship with new Intel Core Ultra and Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-based processors with next-gen NPUs (neural processing units) for enhanced AI performance.…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I know, I know. It sounds ridiculous. Preposterous. Antithetical. Apple sure isn’t going to make a gaming laptop, and the current range of Qualcomm-based Windows laptops aren’t exactly performers. But after doing some gaming on a MacBook Pro, I can’t help but fantasize about how excellent ARM-based gaming laptops could be — and how frustrating the current technology is right now. We may be a few years away, but a guy can dream, can’t he? The problem with gaming laptops Jacob Roach /…

Arm-based chips have been winning market share in PCs and have become a more formidable rival in the increasingly important data-center market where Intel has long been the undisputed leader. Amazon. AMZN -0.07% com Inc. has embraced the technology for its self-made server chips, and Microsoft Corp. MSFT 0.57% and Google are working on processors using building blocks licensed from Arm, according to people familiar with…

Pros Compact and lightweight Good battery life 5G support Quiet in operation (fanless) 5MP webcam with IR Cons Moderate performance No HDMI or Thunderbolt 4 ports No memory card reader Some Windows apps may not work on Arm platformLenovo's ThinkPad X13s, which was announced at MWC back in February, is the first laptop powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 system-on-chip (SoC). This is the chip on which Microsoft's SQ3 -- as seen in the new Surface Pro 9 with 5G -- is based. Running Windows 11 on Arm (Home or Pro)…

Qualcomm has been making PC chipsets since last year, but it's attempts so far has been rather tame, most reusing designs from its phone products. Now a reliable source familiar with the matter claims the company is about to finally take the project seriously and deliver a beastly desktop CPU. The report claims we will see it in 2024 and it's codenamed "Hamoa", which would help us track future leaks about the chip. The Hamoa chip will have of 12 CPU cores in an 8+4 configuration. The big cluster consists of eight…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the latest Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor.The new virtual machines will be generally available on September 1, and customers can launch them in 10 Azure regions and multiple availability zones around the world, the company said in a statement. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This ability has been in preview and will be generally…

Credit: ZDNetIn April, Microsoft announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines. Today, August 29, officials said these Arm-based VMs on Azure would be generally available this week, starting September 1. Microsoft brough Arm to Azure VMs via its work with Ampere Computing, a startup that makes server chips. Ampere announced in 2021 that Microsoft and Tencent Holdings were both onboard as customers.Amazon Web Services has been offering Arm-based VMs for several years. Google announced in July that it…

Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 5.19, and this time released a version of Linux from an Arm-based Apple MacBook running Asahi Linux. Torvalds says Linux 5.19 contains "nothing really interesting" and a "lot of random stuff". The most interesting thing about the release, according to Torvalds, is the fact he used an Arm64 development platform. Torvalds has been keen on using an Apple M1 MacBook Air, which he's previously said would be "almost perfect, except for the OS." Last year the Asahi Linux project was working…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba said on Tuesday it has developed a processor that will be used to power servers in its data centres. The development marks the latest foray into semiconductors for the company, mirroring moves from other global cloud computing players while also dovetailing with Chinese government's priorities to boost the nation's chip sector.Developed by Alibaba's in-house semiconductor unit T-Head, the chip — the Yitian 710 — is based on architecture from UK-based Arm, and will not be available for commercial…

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first ARM-based virtual machines powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each with up to 4GB of memory — It's been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances … Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first ARM-based virtual machines powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each…