Windows Phone can now work on smartphones with Intel's x86 chips

After years, the wait for Intel-based Windows smartphones could be coming to an end.

The Windows 10 Mobile OS -- popularly known as Windows Phone -- can now run on x86 chips, according to a Microsoft Web page. It's the first version of Windows Phone to be compatible with x86.

The information on the website was confirmed by a Microsoft spokeswoman as accurate. Until now, Windows smartphones have only run on ARM-based chips from Qualcomm.

Intel and Microsoft last year joined forces in an effort to get device makers to bring Windows 10 to low-cost smartphones and phablets that would run on the chip-maker's Atom X3 chips.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here