Microsoft’s Windows 10 Continuum venture has been a huge success on their part and the introduction of this feature was one of the best aspects of the new Windows version capable of delivering an archetypal desktop-like experience with Universal Windows Apps in conjunction with a Continuum compatible phone to an external display, keyboard and mouse.

Still, there is a limitation to the functionality: its inability to run full-fledged x86 apps. But since January 2016, there has been a rumor that Microsoft has been working on adding x86 emulation to ARM processors along with eliminating this exception in Continuum. This addition was needed as not all apps are developed for the UWP platform and some apps need to be run in the x86 mode.

Thanks to codename ‘Cobalt’, various sources have suggested that Microsoft is planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017 with its ‘Redstone 3’ release. One of them, a Twitter user called Walking Cat, insinuated that Microsoft’s upcoming technology involves “Windows hybrid x86-on-ARM64 tech” which is apparently codenamed CHPE.

It looks like Windows’s hybrid x86-on-ARM64 tech has a new name “CHPE”, whatever it means ???? maybe something like Compound Hybrid PE, tweeted WalkingCat.

Breaking down the abbreviation, HP refers to Hewlett-Packard while the C might stand out for Cobalt, which is as we previously mentioned a code name for x86 emulation based on ARM.

HP stated a while back that a majority of enterprise consumers of its Elite x3, a Continuum focused device, used some kind of remote-desktop capability to run x86 apps via Continuum. For the most part, the main program being run is Citrix to fulfill their needs of using Win32/line-of-business apps. HP has seemingly also reworked its HP Workspace virtualisation service to target smaller business users so they can access their x86 apps without having to gain remote-desktop access.

Why is it needed? Think of it this way: Wouldn’t Windows 10 mobile be a more reliable and dependable interface with added support for x86 apps with the help of ARM64, just like the WOW (Windows on Windows) emulator allowed 32-bit apps to run on 64-bit Windows? If you ask us, it is definitely an interesting take on Continuum by Microsoft.

Moreover, Cobalt might also prove to be a revolutionary aspect for Microsoft’s very own Surface Phone. The company’s Terry Myerson recently stated the ARM processors in Windows Mobile are one of the unique things about the platform and that the ARM processors “have a role in the technical landscape of the future”.

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