Thus spake the great god Mercury 

Beancounters sitting at the crossroads have declared that the fourth quarter of 2022 saw the biggest fall in PC processor shipments in three decades.

Ignoring the general downturn 

Beancounters at Counterpoint Research have noticed that while PC sales are dropping, those with ARM based chips appeared to be bucking the trend. 

Future opportunity

MediaTek has been explaining how it plans to address Qualcomm's Arm-based Windows PC market using a variant of its Kompanio mobile processor.

Joint project for exascale supercomputers

French ARM company that designs Arm-based processors for supercomputers has teamed up with AMD to build exascale supercomputers.

ARM Cortex-X3 prime core and Immortalis G715 GPU with hardware ray tracing

MediaTek has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone SoC, the Dimensity 9200. Built on TSMC 4nm (N4P) manufacturing process, this is also the first SoC to feature the ARM Cortex-X3 core based on ARMv9 architecture, as well as the new Immortalis-G715 GPU with hardware-based ray tracing.

Keeping the lawyers busy

Qualcomm and Arm are locked in a court battle over licensing of intellectual property which could make a real mess of the chip industry.

And then Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine

Russian chip maker Baikal Electronics was halfway to having an SoC series from eight cores to 48 before Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine and crippled the entire industry.

Uses its Arm-based Ampere Altra

Microsoft announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. 

And pricey

Windows on Arm laptops are starting to wake up the market, but the price and technology limitations are keeping everything in the status quo for now.

Includes ray tracing on mobile

ARM is announcing its new flagship Immortalis GPU today, its first to include hardware-based ray tracing on mobile.