Chrome is the default browser for a large majority of Windows users fighting against Microsoft’s desperate prompts to use Edge to install Google’s browser.
But with the big Arm revolution finally happening for Windows with the Snapdragon X Elite laptops just around the corner, it’s time for the browser to be less x86 and more native. That’s exactly what the company announced today, as a full version of Chrome optimized for Arm-compatible Windows PCs is launching this week.
Push-up
Of course, an Arm version of the browser has been available for Arm-based operating systems for a while now, including Android, macOS, and Chrome OS. There’s also Chromium, the open source codebase for Chrome that has been adopted into Microsoft’s Edge to create an Arm-compatible browser for Windows.
But this is Google’s first official launch before Qualcomm’s big foray into the laptop space. In addition to this and the promise that Windows games “should now work” Thanks to x64 emulation, it’s clear that Intel and AMD should be a little nervous right now.
“The new version of Google Chrome will help solidify Snapdragon era of the AI PC, I can’t wait to see Chrome shine by leveraging the powerful Snapdragon
Oh snap (dragon)
So with Chrome coming to Snapdragon-powered laptops, what else do we know? Well, we know it’s fast: faster than AMD’s high-end APU, to be specific based on leaked benchmarks. Tom Hardware Mountain range. And if these numbers are to be believed, multi-core performance will also put Apple’s MacBook Air M3 under pressure.
Qualcomm also relies heavily on its NPU performance for AI workloads. “We can support over 70 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance across our three different processor units, and the eight AI PCs talked about at MWC can barely do 10,” said the CMO of Qualcomm, Dom McGuire, to Jugo Mobile. .
As for the details, like which new laptops will have the chipset and how energy and efficient they are, we’ll have to wait and see for ourselves.
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