One big announcement this year involved the British company ARM and the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Its enclosure resembles the silver metallic enclosure of a MacBook Pro, but inside, it has the ARM processor architecture and operating system of the iPhone.

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Qualcomm and ARM are the foundations for operating mobile devices.

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In January of 2011, however, Microsoft announced last year that it is working with Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments to put a version of its Windows operating system on computers powered by the ARM-based processors now used in mobile phones and tables.

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