The race for Arm-based Windows laptops could soon get interesting, as MediaTek is said to be preparing to enter the game, while the legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm could disrupt the latter's products.revelling in the 20-plus vendors it claims are bringing Windows on Arm laptops and other systems to market, including a pair of Microsoft Surface devices.
It claims that MediaTek's chip is set to launch late next year, and will be based on one of Arm's ready-made core designs rather than a custom design as with Qualcomm, but it isn't clear whether Microsoft has approved this chip for the Copilot+ Windows program. Arm claimed that the licenses it had granted Nuvia could not be transferred to Qualcomm and used by it without Arm's permission, as reported byat the time. When negotiations failed, it terminated the licenses with Nuvia, requiring the Snapdragon maker to stop using any processor designs developed under those agreements.