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Qualcomm and Microsoft announce the latest entrant in the PC wars: the Connected PC

It was a couple of years ago that Qualcomm and Microsoft threatened the status quo with the Always Connected PC, a true PC running Windows 10 on an Arm-based mobile phone processor with enough battery life to run for more than one day, and mobile wireless connectivity to always be connected to the Internet. Today, in Hawaii no less, Qualcomm ...

Kathleen Maher

It was a couple of years ago that Qualcomm and Microsoft threatened the status quo with the Always Connected PC, a true PC running Windows 10 on an Arm-based mobile phone processor with enough battery life to run for more than one day, and mobile wireless connectivity to always be connected to the Internet. Today, in Hawaii no less, Qualcomm joined with partners Microsoft, HP, Asus, Samsung, Sprint, and Xiaomi to celebrate Qualcomm’s newest 845 Snapdragon and the imminent arrival of the Always Connected computer enabled by the current Snapdragon 835. (Lenovo was also mentioned as an OEM for Connected
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