ARM, after strongly hinting at a move into the notebook market with its "laptop class" Cortex-A76 CPU, has this week released a roadmap detailing how it plans to take on the likes on Intel and AMD, with two new, high-performance chips — 7nm and 5nm respectively — slated for 2019 and 2020.

Despite the failure a few years ago of Windows RT, the limited version of Windows that ran on ARM systems when the first Surface devices were around, Microsoft has had another crack at putting their OS on the ARM architecture. But benchmark results suggest poor performance and limited compatibility.