Earlier this year, Apple announced the ARM-based Apple Silicon ... Recently, with the launch of new Mac devices based on the Apple M1 chipset, the company has officially begun the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon.
Now, according to the report from Bloomberg NewsMicrosoft is also following Apple's lead and is reportedly working on its own ARM-based chipset. The company is developing a new chip with support Windows 10 and is intended primarily for data centers, but is expected to also be used for Surface devices.
The Redmond tech giant is currently using processors based on Intel for most of their Azure cloud services. In addition, the Surface line is equipped with Intel processors. But now it looks like Microsoft is ready to move on.
The company recently worked with AMD and Qualcomm to develop specialized chips for the Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X, highlighting the fact that Intel could soon be replaced. But, as with Apple, this is likely to happen in stages.
Microsoft has reportedly been working on offering devices with an ARM-based chipset for quite some time now, as well as improving support for the Windows 10 operating system. However, unlike Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the company has a much broader range of technologies.
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Its product is used by different manufacturers and runs on different chipsets. So everything that Microsoft creates, should have broader compatibility and be versatile. It will be interesting to see developments in this area.
Besides Apple and Microsoft, Amazon also poses a threat to Intel as well as AMD. The e-commerce giant, which is also a leading cloud infrastructure provider with AWS, has its own ARM-based Graviton2 processors.
While the new ARM-based chipsets offer better performance, longer battery life, and are cheaper, they still have a smaller market share, with Intel and AMD dominating most of the market.
