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If this chip is comparable to a M2, then I would bet on Microsoft investing more in Windows 11 on ARM. There is value for them across all their product lines, from Surface devices where performance vs. efficiency is important from a battery life perspective, to Azure, where competitive products are rolling out ARM support that is really compelling from a cost perspective.

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The only place that this makes sense over Intel/AMD on the Windows side is for laptops where ARM offers lower power draw, less heat, and longer battery life.

For a desktop, if you don't care about power and heat, then this will have inferior performance.

Nuvia had a core designed for server chips when Qualcomm bought them, and Qualcomm publishing benchmarks at an 80 watt TDP, tells me that their chip isn't going to be well positioned to compete on power draw, heat and battery life against next year's chips, especially without any sort of efficiency core at all.

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