Microsoft is set to unveil its Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 in June, and the tech giant has high expectations for the ARM CPUs that will power those PCs. Microsoft is reportedly confident that its new Surface PCs running on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat Apple’s M3 MacBook Air in several key areas.
While big-name app developers have jumped on board the Windows 11 on ARM train, emulation is still important for ARM-based computing. Consumers want their apps to simply work, not to have to jump through hoops or deal with lag. Microsoft’s internal documentation states that Windows AI PCs will have “faster app emulation than Rosetta 2”. That would be quite an achievement, as Rosetta 2 is
