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.

Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
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Legal constraints meant it went to Arm

Nvidia’s Project Denver was supposed to be based on x86 tech, but things took a turn thanks to legal wranglings involving Transmeta’s Tokamak technology. Instead, Nvidia had to pivot to Arm, and the rest is history.

Arm boss sad about Kicking Pat’s exit
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Monday, 09 December 2024 11:32

Arm boss sad about Kicking Pat’s exit


Intel used to be a contender

Arm's CEO Rene Haas has told the Verge he is sad to see Chipzilla suffering so much.

Intel’s shares fall on the back of Arrow Lake disaster
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Chipzilla can’t get a break

Chipzilla’s share price took a significant hit today, dropping nearly 4.5 per cent as the Cocane Nose Jobs of Wall Street decided that the company’s Arrow Lake launch was a damp squib.  

Nvidia is building a CPU
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Thursday, 07 November 2024 11:25

Nvidia is building a CPU


Taking on Intel and AMD

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Nvidia is building a CPU for consumer PCs, marking a step into territory dominated by AMD and Chipzilla.

Arm threatens Qualcomm
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Wednesday, 23 October 2024 10:54

Arm threatens Qualcomm


Will take your licence away if you don’t pull your socks up

British chip design firm Arm has warned Qualcomm that it will take away its chip design licence, escalating a legal dispute that has been ongoing since 2022.

Arm tried to buy a slice of Intel
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Friday, 27 September 2024 11:15

Arm tried to buy a slice of Intel


Chipzilla said it was not that desperate yet

Intel rejected an offer from the British chip designer Arm to buy its manufacturing operations.

RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86
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Monday, 15 July 2024 10:43

RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86


Torvalds’ prophecy

The softly spoken Linux prophet, Linus Torvalds has been consulting his bones and concluded that RISC-V might fall into the same development chasm between hardware and software developers seen by Arm and x86.