“Microsoft’s Custom ARM Chips: A New Weapon to Compete with Apple’s M-Series Processors”

Microsoft wants to compete with Apple’s M-series processors. For this reason, the American company works on custom ARM chips, so they also enter the segment of custom processors. These chips together with a customized Windows 12 to give the best performance and efficiency would be the firm’s weapon against Apple.

Microsoft works on custom ARM chips to compete with Apple

The company will optimize its new operating system so that it will give the best possible performance in combination with these processors.

New chips and operating system

Microsoft has posted a number of jobs, who are the ones who have revealed these future plans of the company. In this way, the company seeks to design new processors where performance and efficiency are the main aspects to take into account, the fields where they want these chips to stand out especially. These jobs were published at the end of April, so it is something very recent.

Apple’s M chips and an optimized macOS have helped to a notable improvement in performance and energy consumption in MacBooks. This is something that Redmond seeks to match with custom ARM processors. Apple will have new chips made in TSMC’s 3nm process, something that may also be matched by Redmond’s with Windows 12, when these custom chips would arrive.

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Windows 12 should hit the market sometime next year, without any confirmed dates for now. This release should coincide with these ARM custom chips that Microsoft wants to release. It will be interesting to see if they get close to Apple chips in fields like performance or power consumption.