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Intel warns expansionists to stay out of the garden It’s one thing to expand the PC market, and something else again to expand the Windows market. PC to Intel means x86. An x86 can run Windows, Linux, iOS, and a dozen other OSs. Windows can run on X86 and no other CPU—today. Intel likes it that way, Microsoft doesn’t. So, ...

Jon Peddie

Intel warns expansionists to stay out of the garden It’s one thing to expand the PC market, and something else again to expand the Windows market. PC to Intel means x86. An x86 can run Windows, Linux, iOS, and a dozen other OSs. Windows can run on X86 and no other CPU—today. Intel likes it that way, Microsoft doesn’t. So, Microsoft got the world’s largest selling CPU builder, Qualcomm, to work with them in porting a full-blown version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 OS to ARM. When laptops with Qualcomm ARM-based processor come to market running Windows 10, the PC market
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