Intel faces new telco rival
Published in News
Friday, 28 February 2025 11:02

Intel faces new telco rival


Last thing it needs

With all its current woes, the last thing that Intel needs is a rival going after its telecom business, but 2025 has bought just that.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series takes centre stage
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Snapdragon Summit in Southeast Asia

Qualcomm showcased its Snapdragon X-powered device lineup at the Snapdragon Summit in Southeast Asia (SEA).

Arm launches its own chip
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 14 February 2025 11:21

Arm launches its own chip


Meta signs on as an early customer

Arm will unveil its first in-house chip later this year, marking a significant shift in its business model and potentially reshaping the semiconductor industry's competitive landscape.

Arm runs away from Qualcomm legal battle
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Friday, 07 February 2025 09:39

Arm runs away from Qualcomm legal battle


Chip giant free to make processors

British chip designer Arm has abandoned its bid to terminate Qualcomm’s crucial Architecture License Agreement (ALA), meaning the US tech giant can continue producing Arm-compatible chips for PCs, smartphones, and servers. 

Wall Street uninterested in Qualcomm and Arm's brilliant results
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Great results can’t please anyone

The reaction to Qualcomm and Arm’s stonking results is more proof that Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs don't really know anything.

Google removes pledge against weaponising AI from website
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We want to do some real evil now

Search engine outfit Google has removed a promise not to build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website.

Arm plans massive price hike
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Wednesday, 15 January 2025 22:20

Arm plans massive price hike


Up to 300 per cent

British chip technology supplier Arm wants to jack up tits royalty rates by up to 300 per cent and develop its own chips in a move that could place it in direct competition with its largest customers.

Arm loses in Qualcomm court case
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Sunday, 22 December 2024 21:03

Arm loses in Qualcomm court case


Wants a rematch

Arm has announced plans to pursue a retrial in its high-stakes licensing lawsuit against Qualcomm after a jury in a U.S. federal court delivered a mixed verdict on Friday. While the jury ruled in Qualcomm's favour on two of the three counts, it deadlocked on the question of whether Nuvia, a company acquired by Qualcomm, had breached its agreement with Arm.

Arm and Qualcomm lawyers spar over chip design rights
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It’s mine, no it is mine

Attorneys representing Arm and Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive in a pivotal legal battle over intellectual property (IP) ownership tied to Arm's computing architecture.

SiFive hires big core engineer
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Monday, 16 December 2024 20:54

SiFive hires big core engineer


Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction

After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.