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I guess not. It requires hardware features from Snapdragon 820/835.

Do you know particular details what these hardware features are?

I'm guessing it's both a performance issue and a "let's not support too many different ARM chips from the beginning" issue.

Snapdragon 835 will probably be the minimum level of ARM performance Microsoft will accept. We may start seeing Samsung's Exynos and a high-end MediaTek processor being supported in a year or two.

As I understand, x86 Hardware virtualization.

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