by Microsoft has released its Windows Dev Kit 2023 (previously known as Project Volterra) for general sale.
The device promises a compact, all-in-one workstation for natively building, running, and testing Windows apps, and faster AI and machine learning workloads, thanks to the new Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
It is powered by Snapdragon’s 8cx Gen 3 compute platform coupled with Qualcomm’s Neural Processing SDK, ensuring peak performance and bringing Microsoft one step closer to making hybrid AI and compute workflows the norm. .
arm native apps
Ad (opens in a new tab) follows its initial teaser at Microsoft Build 2022, where the company outlined its vision for the new development kit, as well as a native Arm toolchain to keep app development local to a single device.
It is delivered there, too. Previews of the native Arm versions of Visual Studio 2022, the Windows Application SDK, and the VC++ Runtime are now available, while the .NET Framework 4.8.1 for Arm has been released with the Arm update. Windows 11 of 2022.
In addition, the .NET 7 toolchain, which aims to provide functional parity for ARM versus the x64 architecture, is also now available in preview, while Microsoft’s Azure virtual machines (VMs) and Arm64EC are now publicly available, which ensures that application development and testing is now seamless.
Arm64EC (opens in a new tab) offers a way to integrate native Arm code with x64 code as part of the same process. A potential use case for this could be the gradual transition of x64 applications to the Arm architecture, rather than spending time developing solely for one platform.
Visual Studio 2022 on Arm, which has been in monthly previews since July, now supports desktop workloads, Windows SDK components and Windows App SDK (Win UI), and Microsoft Windows development workloads. games, Node.js, and Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
Coinciding with the hardware launch, Microsoft collaboration tools are now also available in Arm, including Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365the Web navigator microsoft edge, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints (MDE) (opens in a new tab) Y microsoft one drive.
And just to make sure that users never feel the need to walk away from their development kits, several creativity, video conferencing, security, and benchmarking solutions have been ported to Arm devices. There are plenty of names here, like Adobe, Zoom, Sophos, Cisco, PassMark, and Microsoft claims more are on the way.
The hardware itself is also exciting. In addition to the above, the device features 32GB of LPDDR4x RAM and fast 512GB NVMe SSD storage, plus three USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, and a Mini Display port for maximum device compatibility.
We’re certainly impressed on paper, and look forward to any new developments that come to the virtual site on October 26. Arm Development Summit (opens in a new tab).
For now, Windows Dev Kit 2023 is now available for purchase in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and China.
