Google Drive is coming to Windows on Arm later this year

Google has committed to releasing an Arm64 mentation of Google Drive connected Windows aboriginal this year, aft Microsoft and Qualcomm person been moving hard to person app developers to larboard their applications implicit to Windows connected Arm.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement onstage astatine the company’s IFA lawsuit earlier today, wherever helium besides revealed that some NordVPN and ExpressVPN volition beryllium disposable connected Qualcomm’s Snapdragon laptops today.

VPN apps and Google Drive person been noticeably absent connected the latest Copilot Plus PCs, due to the fact that they needed to beryllium updated for Windows connected Arm. Google presently blocks Drive connected the latest Qualcomm-powered devices, but it’s wide Qualcomm and Microsoft person managed to person the hunt elephantine to put into making Drive a afloat app connected Arm64. Google besides antecedently created an Arm64 mentation of Chrome for Windows successful clip for the Copilot Plus motorboat successful June.

It has been conscionable implicit 2 months since the latest Qualcomm-powered laptops launched, and Qualcomm is present launching a new 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip that’s designed to marque Windows connected Arm laptops cheaper. The Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 present commencement astatine conscionable $899 each arsenic a result, and Qualcomm besides antecedently said its laptops would dip as debased arsenic the $700 mark in 2025.

Amon besides revealed that Qualcomm is “thinking about” the accidental for Snapdragon chips wrong desktop PCs. We’ve seen Qualcomm tease Snapdragon X Elite chips for desktop PCs before, but the lone instrumentality that comes adjacent to a desktop PC is Qualcomm’s eight-inch dev kit. Qualcomm is hosting a Snapdragon summit successful October, truthful possibly we’ll perceive much astir the desktop plans then.