Illustrator Beta Now Live on Windows for ARM Devices

[Srishti Bali]

We are delighted to announce that Illustrator Beta is now live on Windows for ARM devices (with Qualcomm SD X-Elite processors) for the English locale. This update allows users to run Illustrator on devices with Snapdragon X Series ARM architecture-based processors through emulation mode. 

   Note: Only Illustrator 28.7 beta and later versions are available on Windows ARM architecture-based processors.

Key Highlights:

• Fully functional Illustrator on the Windows ARM platform
• Illustrator native x86 app runs in Emulation Mode
• Supports GPU acceleration
• Supports CPU fallback mode
• GPU performance benchmarks on par with native mode in certain cases
  
  
  

Minimum System Requirements:

• Processor: Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 (up to 3.4 GHz, 12 cores)
• Graphics: Snapdragon X Elite Qualcomm Adreno.
  
  
  

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[Smdiscover]

Still no official full version of Adobe Illustrator and InDesign for Windows on Arm? 

[arknu]

It is pretty clear that Adobe is staffed by amateurs. Not to mention the liars that claimed they'd have ARM native versions in June 2024. It is now March 2025 and we still have nothing more than an emulated beta.

A competent team of programmers could easily have ported Illustrator for Windows to ARM by now. Especially given that Illustrator for Mac is already ARM-native. As with all Adobe apps the code is mostly cross-platform, so I really don't get how it can possibly take this long.

Also, any competent management team should have seen the increasing momentum for Windows on ARM years back and started planning accordingly, having their apps ready on day 1. 

It is embarassing that the Affinity apps beat Adobe to Windows on ARM by a large margin. At this rate we may arrive at Adobe being over a year late. Maybe if they thought about something other than Artificial Intelligence for a change they could actually deliver something valuable like Illustrator and InDesign for ARM...