Windows 11 now has an additional ARM browser, and it doesn’t come from Google!

Probably a few weeks ahead of its competitor Google Chrome, Brave deploys a Windows version optimized to work natively with ARM. Good news, which comes as Microsoft and Qualcomm are putting the emphasis back on this architecture.

Brave, which also relies on conversational AI, can now count on a Windows version fully compatible with the ARM64 architecture. This version, which offers much better performance to users of PCs equipped with a Snapdragon chip, in particular, allows Brave to take a symbolic lead over Google Chrome.

Chrome lagging, Brave at the forefront

Its competitor, number one on the web browser market, should indeed take the plunge too, but not for a few weeks. For now, Chrome’s native ARM support for Windows is only available through the browser’s Canary channel… and therefore in beta. Its counterpart at Brave is available on a large scale and in a stable version.

“ Brave ARM64 on Windows is now stable and offers native performance. You can also benefit from the same features that we offer on the x64/x86 architecture, such as Widevine, IPFS, or even Tor “, declared Mihai Plesa, director of development of Brave, on X.com (formerly Twitter).

Perfect timing…

For context, the arrival of a version of Brave natively managing ARM on Windows comes at a time when this architecture is more than ever in the spotlight. Three years after the arrival of the first “M” chips on Apple laptops, Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon X Elite during the fall of 2023.

Expected on the market in the spring or summer of 2024, this new ARM SoC is supposed to develop more performance than the latest Apple M3 chip, and is intended primarily for laptops running Windows 11. Enough to give scale upon the announcement of Brave, which will therefore be able to exploit it in due form.

Source : Windows Report