Qualcomm introduces the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows May 24, 2021 11:50 EDT with 4 comments Windows 10 devices powered by ARM chipsets have been around for a few years at this point, but if you're a developer making apps for ARM-based Windows 10 PCs, it can be expensive to test them due to the price of most of those devices. To address that, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon Developer Kit, an ARM-based PC reference design meant for testing Windows 10 apps. Unlike most Windows 10 ARM PCs available right now, the Snapdragon Developer Kit is a desktop, so it doesn't have a display or anything that significantly adds to the cost. It's just a small PC you can use with your existing monitor, which makes it more affordable for developers to test their apps on ARM devices. It's powered by the new Snapdragon 7c Gen2 compute platform, which is one of the most affordable ARM chipset that can run Windows 10 right now. Again, this helps with the cost for developers, but it could also help ensure that apps are optimized even for lower-performance devices.