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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Report: Arm cancelling contract with Qualcomm
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:44:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:39:40 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> If the cancelation goes through, it could upend the smartphone
> industry, given that Snapdragon processors power the vast majority of 
> Android-based smartphones and tablets, and as well as emerging
> Arm-based Windows PCs like the Surface Pro 11.

Android is Linux-based, and runs on a wide variety of ARM SoCs from a 
range of vendors.

Windows-on-ARM runs only on Qualcomm chips, and that would certainly be in 
peril.