Windows on Arm laptops have new benchmarks for performance and battery life. But there are scenarios where only an Intel-based machine will rescue you.

Microsoft's Prism x86 emulation layer promises faster performance, potentially making the transition to Windows on Arm smoother and more efficient. Arm-powered Windows machines have been on the ...

That’s a good start, but there are still many apps that will have to be emulated on these latest Copilot Plus PCs, which is where Microsoft’s Prism emulator comes in. Microsoft claims Prism is ...

We installed a bushel of x86 Windows programs on a new Snapdragon X Elite laptop to see if Microsoft’s claims of smooth operation on its new emulator pan out. You may be surprised by our results.

Microsoft has introduced a new x86-64 emulator called PRISM with the latest Windows 11 update, aimed at improving the performance of Intel and AMD code on ARM-based Windows laptops. Designed to ...

However, now with Windows 11 24H2, it has been revamped, and this revamped version is called Prism. Why Windows 11 24H2? Because that’s the version these new Copilot Plus PCs are shipping with.

In a new blog post on the Microsoft developer website, the company has discussed technologies like Prism emulator, BattleEye Anti-cheat, and more. It has also briefly mentioned Automatic Super ...

Microsoft is testing a big Windows on Arm update to let more x64 software and games run under Prism emulation on Copilot Plus PC with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus processors.

Second, Microsoft PRISM does an admirable job as an emulation layer, letting you run a lot of Windows x86 apps on the Snapdragon X Elite without any real (or at least noticeable) performance ...

PCMark—one of our benchmarking tools—refused to run as it wasn’t coded for Arm, and it declined to use Microsoft’s Prism to emulate its testing software. With the related 3DMark software ...

For years, Microsoft floundered in its efforts to push Windows on Arm-based PCs as an alternative to Intel's and AMD’s x86-based hegemony. (The two big hurdles were a lack of broad app ...