Yesterday Patently Apple posted a report titled "The Arm and Qualcomm/Nuvia Legal Battle over chip designs could disrupt Qualcomm's Hype and goals for CoPilot+PC Laptops." While Qualcomm has the exclusive contract for arm-based laptops until H2 2025, a new report today claims that Microsoft has lined up a new supplier to support Copilot + PC laptops for Q4 2025.

According to Reuters, "Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's Windows operating system. The MediaTek PC chip is set to launch late next year after Qualcomm's exclusive deal to supply arm-based chips for laptops expires.

Last month, Microsoft unveiled a new generation of laptops that feature chips designed with Arm Holdings tech which provide enough horsepower to run the artificial intelligence applications executives said were the future of consumer computing. The MediaTek chip is geared toward this effort.

The chip is based on Arm's ready-made designs, which can significantly speed development because less design work is needed using ready-made, tested chip components. For more on this, read the full Reuters report.

Apple shocked the PC world in 2020 when they released their M1 Processor, the first in a series of ARM-based system-on-a-chip (SoCs) designed by Apple Inc to follow.