About a month ago, Qualcomm jointly with Microsoft conducted a demonstration of the Windows 10 operating system and some applications on the platform Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. It was also stated that the flagship SoC of the year - Snapdragon 835 - will be the first ARM-platform, which will officially support Windows 10 . it is expected that on the base of this decision will be personal computers cost up to $ 200. Recently, a representative of ARM company has made it clear that the company will not mind if someone else from making the same name developers want to support the work of the platform x86-compatible programs.
Based on the context of the application, it is expected that we are not dealing with hardware virtualization, and with emulators or broadcast x86 instruction in ARM instructions.
Moreover, one of the related activities of JSC "MCST" companies, namely - Elbrus Technologies is working on an emulator to run on ARM x86-compatible programs since 2010. emulator developers showed its work at the ARM TechCon conference in December 2012. It is possible that the launch of Windows 10 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon - is the result of their labor. At the stage of commercial implementation emulator expected that ARM core during the emulation x86-compatible programs will lose about 20% capacity.
At the same time representatives of the ARM state that support x86-programs for the company can not be considered a priority.