Windows 8 brings x86 on ARM

When launched 64 bit versions of Windows operating systems, Microsoft has included in their a substrate that allowed applications running 32 bits, more numerous, known as WOW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit).Only the processor had needed to be able to execute both types of instructions, as was the case.
Now, with Windows 8 Microsoft wants to merge x86 and ARM under a single operating system. And it seems that this unification should take place to the related applications too. It means that these the two platforms should will have in common all the software, not only the operating system.
And for this would need another substrate, a WOWARM, it seems that Microsoft is working on this. It remains to be seen how it will solve this problem at the hardware level. In the classical processors things are pretty simple, Intel, AMD and VIA have ARM license, and can always fit such a nucleus.
But ultra mobile processor manufacturers had no x86 license , and Intel does not seem ready to grant it. And if you move to the software emulation, ARM CPUs will quickly hit a limit of performance. But at least the applications will work.
( by byetech staff  )