Topic: Will there be a "Microsoft branded CPU"?

[Nemesis]

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"We have licensed our architecture and our instruction set to Microsoft," said Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at Arm. "This type of license allows you to design your own microarchitecture."

Only a select group of companies hold similar licenses to design their own Arm-based microarchitectures, including mobile phone chip giant Qualcomm, as well as Marvell Technology and Infineon Technologies.

"As an architectural licensee, Microsoft wants to go public about adding itself to that short list," Drew said.

Do we see a Microsoft computer locked tight to only Microsoft software in the future?  Perhaps the XBox v3.0 will be on ARM?  I guess we have to wait and see what sprouts.

[knightstorm]

I doubt MS will be trying to transition into the pc market, although I can see them using their own cpu in other areas such game consoles, and smart phones.

[Kreeargh]

I doubt MS will be trying to transition into the pc market, although I can see them using their own cpu in other areas such game consoles, and smart phones.

The movie " the Onion" said it all  a series of piss you off pcs called bates 1000 - 9000 with the end for gill bates  .