Windows Phone will have Intel X86 Chip

Windows phone today may not so popular smartphone than android or iPhone. But the previous phone are power by ARM-based chip of Qualcomm, but there is a news that will be supported by another chip. This chip could be Intel’s X86 chip.

Window 10 mobile now will be powered by this two types of chips according to Microsoft. This will enable windows phone to compete better with other rivals. Supporting ARM (32bit) and Intel x86 chip will lead to wide range of Windows phone, so user could choose in variety of option.

In 2015, Microsoft and Intel teamed up in a bid to convince device makers to bring Windows phone to budget smartphones using the Atom X3 chips. It took a while for Microsoft to support large device display and higher resolution.

The problem of Atom X3 chip is just currently supporting 3G. It may be the main reason why there is no OEM took the challenge of launching the Atom X3 chip based Windows phone.

This year should bring more powerful Atom X3 chip with 4G LTE capabilities, in which it more appealing to the known device makers. Microsoft rumors to be launching a “Surface Phone with Atom X3 chip”, but it has not been materialized yet.

The partnership of Microsoft and Intel is a success on the PC world, but they have yet found the success on the mobile arena.

But, it will bring an interesting scene to smartphone world, because most of the smartphone today are power by ARM-based chip, an Intel X86 chip could be another part of world of smartphones.