Microsoft and Qualcomm reportedly have an exclusivity contract for Windows on ARM that’s expiring soon

Microsoft and Qualcomm reportedly have an exclusivity contract for Windows on ARM that’s expiring soon A new report arises from XDA-Developers that Microsoft and Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal to only officially only support Windows on ARM on Qualcomm-powered devices. Given the collaboration that the two companies invested to make Windows on ARM possible, the exclusivity is arguably justified.

Qualcomm currently supplies a few chipsets for machines running Windows on ARM including the Snapdragon 7x Gen2 Compute, Snapdragon 8X compute, and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 Compute.

A contract between the two tech giants does explain why we haven’t seen wider adoption of Windows on ARM on more…