Qualcomm cautiously upbeat on Win 8 plans

Rick Merritt, EETimes
6/1/2011 9:19 PM EDT

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Qualcomm's chief executive was high on enthusiasm but low on details about getting a port of the next version of Microsoft Windows for his Snapdragon processor. Separately, engineers have first silicon of Krait, the next-generation of Snapdragon, and expect to sample chips later this month.

Microsoft said in January it would make versions of Windows 8 available for ARM mobile SoCs. The same day, Nvidia announced it was working on Project Denver, a full line of ARM-based processors spanning notebooks to supercomputers.

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