Microsoft has announced they are working on bringing Windows to the SoC platform enabling software and hardware manufacturers to target devices having all sorts of form factors and running on Microsoft’s operating system. During CES 2011, Microsoft announced that the future version of Windows will support System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platforms. SoC are an attempt to integrate as many components as possible in a single chip, which is supposed to offer the computability power of a full size system but taking a lot less space and, especially, consuming less power. They announced work in progress to make Windows run on SoC from NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, all built on an ARM architecture. In the same time, Intel and AMD will continue to innovate on their x86 32-bit and 64-bit platforms in order to create SoC platforms for Windows. Mike Angiulo, Corporate Vice President, Windows Planning, Hardware & PC Ecosystem, at Microsoft, demoed a ver...
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