Windows 11's x86 emulator just got a big upgrade

This new build of Windows 11 introduces a major upgrade to the Prism emulator that enables support for additional CPU extensions in its emulated x86 processor. These include AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C.

This is big news for ARM Windows laptops. Now according to Microsoft almost every app should be compatible, and they showed Adobe Premiere running fine through emulation.

  • zingo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I rather run native than emulation.

    That way I get to use 100% of the power at my disposal, for the product I bought.

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      That depends on app developers, not MS. Having apps actually work through a translation layer would ease a lot of people’s problems when transitioning to ARM though.