The chip giant didn’t give much explanation about what prompted the delay and the eventual cancellation.
Qualcomm has canceled its upcoming Windows Mini PC, the Snapdragon Dev Kit, in what could be a blow to some Arm developers.
The $899 Mini PC wasn’t intended for general use, but to help developers develop Windows applications that were natively compatible with chips manufactured by semiconductor giant Arm.
Arm’s chips power the vast majority of the world’s smartphones, excluding those manufactured by Apple, which switched to its own silicon in 2023.
However, Arm’s engineering was mostly absent from Windows laptops, with these instead generally using CPUs from AMD and Intel, at least up until fairly recently.
But things are changing, and Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo have announced Arm-based laptops in 2024, including a new Lenovo ThinkBook powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus eight-core processors.
