The Microsoft Build 2022 Developer Conference, which is one of the biggest annual events of the Microsoft company, was arranged to be held as an online event from the 24th of May as usual due to the ongoing Covid epidemic.
The keynote of Satya Nadella, the chief executive officer of Microsoft company, introduced a Mini PC with the same features as a Mac mini style or a Windows 11 Mini Desktop PC based on the ARM architecture.
As per the usual custom, Microsoft company does not introduce any new hardware device in an annual developer conference event and this year it is also special to reveal their Project Volterra mini PC during the Microsoft Build 2022 event.
This mini PC called Project Volterra is a Mini Desktop PC powered by Microsoft's first ARM architecture that can run Windows 11 and it is equipped with a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. They further state that this will provide advanced hardware with "best-in-class" AI computing capacity and efficient operation.
Recently, the mini PC that can run windows 11 based on this ARM architecture has been designed for developers and through this to provide the necessary support to build native ARM apps for workloads such as employ AI-accelerated, as well as development tools such as Visual Studio 2022 and Windows Terminal natively ARM. Microsoft has mentioned that it will soon provide the ability to run on a hardware based on
And Microsoft's Chief Product Officer Panos Panay mentioned that Microsoft will provide Windows support for the neural processing unit (NPU) with Project Volterra and for this they will provide new facilities from NPUS to end-to-end Windows platforms with maximum support. has.
It is equipped with a fan inside which helps to keep the System on a chip (SoC) cool and reduce the pressure. It is special that Microsoft has designed this Volterra mini PC so that the processor's performance can be well controlled.
The olterra is made of recycled black ocean plastic, the same material used for the Microsoft Ocean Plastic mouse, and you can see the four rubber feet on the bottom and the Microsoft logo engraved on the top.
With this Volterra, Microsoft has provided the ability to develop apps for Windows based on native ARM architecture as well as several development tools to program and run on Windows ARM without any simulation.
Full Visual Studio 2022
Visual C++
Modern .NET 6 and Java
Classic .NET Framework
Windows Terminal
WSL and WSA for Linux, Android apps
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