

The advent of Apple silicon Macs has accelerated Microsoft’s plans for Windows on ARM so much so that the Redmond giant released the first preview of 圆4 emulation for PCs powered by Windows on ARM. But it comes with a significant drawback: it does not support 64-bit apps written for the AMD and Intel chips. Windows on ARM is a Windows version optimized for processors that are based on CPU blueprints from the fabless semiconductor company ARM Holdings. “Windows on ARM needs a miracle,” according to one publication which ran various benchmarks to see how Windows on ARM compares to macOS Big Sur running on Apple silicon.


The performance of both native ARM-based and emulated 64-bit Intel-based software on a Surface Pro X isn’t even close to the new Macs powered by Apple’s M1 laptop chip.
