Microsoft announces Snapdragon-equipped desktop machine 'Project Volterra' & announces Arm native support for Visual Studio and VS Code
Microsoft announced the small desktop machine ' Project Volterra ' equipped with Qualcomm's SoC 'Snapdragon'. At the same time, we are also announcing the arrival of Arm native compatible versions of developer apps such as Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code.
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You can see what kind of machine Project Volterra is by watching the following movie.
Introducing Project Volterra (Satya Nadella 2022 Build Keynote)-YouTube
Project Volterra is a thin desktop machine with rounded corners.
Equipped with Snapdragon. It also has an AI processing processor (NPU) built in.
It seems that
The back is equipped with a wired LAN port, Mini DisplayPort, and USB Type-A port (3) ....
There are two USB Type-C ports on the side.
Adopted a stackable design.
In the movie, two Project Volterra are stacked and the video is output to three monitors. In addition, the monitor shows the screen of Visual Studio that is natively compatible with Arm.
According to Microsoft, Project Volterra is equipped with an NPU, and AI development using the ' Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for Windows ' is possible. Microsoft explains why it has an NPU: 'In the future, we expect that most devices will have an NPU. Therefore, we will support NPUs on end-to-end Windows platforms, and developers will be able to use NPUs. Made it easy to use. '
Project Volterra will ship in late 2022. In addition, Arm native support for the following apps and frameworks has also been announced.
・ Full Visual Studio 2022 & VSCode
・ Visual C ++
· Modern .NET 6 and Java
· Classic .NET Framework
・ Windows Terminal
・ WSL and WSA for running Linux and Android apps
In addition, Microsoft is participating in Arm64 native support work for Python, Node, git, and LLVM.
In addition, Microsoft announced 'Surface Pro X' as an Arm machine in 2019. Actually I got 'Surface Pro X' in the editorial department and tried to touch it, but at that time '64bit software does not work, and if 32bit software also has stronger compatibility, performance will drop. There was a problem such as. On the other hand, since it has reached a practical level as 'Windows for ARM', it seems that many of the tools for developers can be expected to improve the usability of Windows for Arm by natively supporting Arm.
It turns out that Microsoft's fully released 'Surface Pro X' was able to revenge on the ARM architecture and actually touch it-GIGAZINE
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