Although the date when the first devices with Snapdragon appeared Although it was not finally confirmed, many rumors suggested that the new Surface presented by Microsoft yesterday will be the first “motorized” devices with this integrated, in a pretty clear sign that in addition Qualcomm’s still-unpublished proposal seems to be generating a lot of interest.

No wonder, it’s true, and the company has long since identified 2024 as the year that ARM will reach the level necessary to to be able to compete with the X86-64 architecture on Windows systems. Something that has undoubtedly been decisively influenced by Apple’s commitment to the ARM architecture in APUs that make up the three generations of Apple Silicon SoCs. A platform that, despite the recent and disturbing revelation of its security issue, has amply demonstrated that performance is not the problem.

It was in October of last year when Qualcomm made the Snapdragon, a moment we used to take a good look at what they told us at the time, and soon after the first performance data began to appear, which undoubtedly proved to be the most promising. The enormous interest this move has generated is therefore completely understandable, as well as a large number of questions about what to expect from these new chips.

GDC 2024 is happening these days and Qualcomm took advantage of it to make a very important announcement and it is according to what they say The Snapdragon X Elite will be compatible with the vast majority of games developed for Windows. Developers will not have to do so ports specific to this new platform, something that could significantly limit the available offerings. Emulation will be used instead. And yes, it is true that Qualcomm’s results in this regard are not particularly dazzling, but in this case they claim that they have carried out several tests and that the result is completely satisfactory.

Now, and apart from the logical caveats to the functioning of emulation in Snapdragon, they are noticeable all those that use anti-copy and anti-cheat systems that work at the kernel level. In these cases, the only option will be for the developers themselves to provide versions fully ported to this architecture.

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