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The Windows on Arm chip race heats up with a challenger to Qualcomm

MediaTek is reportedly taking on Snapdragon.

Reuters reports that the Taiwanese chip company is now preparing an AI PC chipset to launch in late 2025 specifically for Windows PCs. That’s what we heard in a report from Taiwan’s United Daily News last month, and Reuters now confirms MediaTek is helping with that separate chip, too. “Executives at Arm have said one of its customers used the ready-made components to build a chip in roughly nine months for a design that is already complete, which MediaTek’s is not,” writes Reuters.

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