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Microsoft is designing an Arm processor to do for Windows what Apple Silicon did for Macs, says a new report. However, we think it may just be customizing a Qualcomm chip again.
Job ad reveals ambitious Microsoft silicon project
lumireleon making your own cpu does not necessarily mean money will be saved, off-the shelf CPUs have a massive advantage: COMPETITION. Simply put the fastest is picked. It sounds like Microsoft are making their own SoC, not designing the CPU cores themselves. They can still buy off the shelf core designs (probably N2 or even V1 cores), and pair them up with things like off the shelf 25GbE network cores to make something that properly fits their needs. But for me the interesting thing here is whether the chips end up running Windows, or MS just put the usual datacentre standard of Linux on th...
lumireleon making your own cpu does not necessarily mean money will be saved, off-the shelf CPUs have a massive advantage: COMPETITION. Simply put the fastest is picked. It sounds like Microsoft are making their own SoC, not designing the CPU cores themselves. They can still buy off the shelf core designs (probably N2 or even V1 cores), and pair them up with things like off the shelf 25GbE network cores to make something that properly fits their needs. But for me the interesting thing here is whether the chips end up running Windows, or MS just put the usual datacentre standard of Linux on th...