Arm CEO wants to capture half of the Windows PC market within five years
- June 4, 2024
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With the recent launch of Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite CPUs, Arm aims to achieve a 50 percent market share in Windows PCs in five years. According to
With the recent launch of Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite CPUs, Arm aims to achieve a 50 percent market share in Windows PCs in five years.
According to an interview with Reuters, Arm CEO Rene Haas wants to conquer half of the Windows world in five years. The leading CPU architecture designer is very optimistic about the recent launch of Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite CPUs and believes that these processors will power a new generation of Windows AI PCs. Chip analysts consider it a hopeful but unrealistic thought.
Optimistic
“To get to 50 percent in five years would require some pretty big evolutions in the market,” Canalys analyst Kieren Jessop told The Register. “Today, about 8 to 10 percent of quarterly PC shipments are based on Arm, so almost exclusively on Apple Silicon.”
Jessop adds that they “made a forecast that 30 percent of the PC market will be Arm-based by 2026.” Particularly when Haas is talking specifically about Windows PCs and not PCs in general, that number seems even more unattainable given Canalys’ forecast.
It will not be easy for Arm to compete with both Intel and AMD, as the PC market is currently based on x86 CPUs. Nevertheless, Arm’s growth in the Windows ecosystem will not be slow either, according to Canalys. “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
Source: IT Daily
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