AMD, Nvidia challenge Intel’s chip market dominance
Looming acquisition deals could put Intel's leading position in jeopardy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created skyrocketing demand for semiconductors as companies accelerate toward digital transformation, Cloud-based remote working and increased data analytics.
Emboldened by what they see as a b... Read more
Equinix to rent out bare metal Arm servers
Data center giant Equinix has announced that the company is leasing bare metal servers equipped with Arm processors. The company already offered x86-based bare metal servers for some time.
The new service is called Equinix Metal and uses Ampere eMAG-processors with 32 Arm v8 cores and a 3.3GHz c... Read more
Chinese tech firms see Nvidia’s Arm deal as a major threat
Huawei and other Chinese technology companies want regulators to block the acquisition.
Bloomberg News reported that Huawei and several other Chinese tech firms have raised concerns to local regulators about chipmaker Nvidia's deal to buy UK-based chip designer Arm.
Last month, Nvidia announc... Read more
Arm says it will protect confidential info after Nvidia acquisition
If Nvidia is allowed to acquire Arm from SoftBank, Arm will have ‘firewalls’ in place to ensure the data center chip company will not have access to information from Arm's customers or get early access to Arm products. The news about this was confirmed by a top exec at Arm on Tuesday.
The de... Read more
Windows on ARM is getting better, 64bit emulation is coming
Microsoft is taking it slowly, but Windows 10 on ARM is getting better and better. Microsoft has now announced that it will also emulate x64 applications on ARM systems. Until now, only 32bit applications could be emulated. In addition, Microsoft comes with native 64bit ARM applications from Micros... Read more
Arm launches new chip designs for use in autonomous systems
Arm announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new set of solutions for autonomous systems in industrial and automotive applications. The chips include the Mali-G78AE GPU, the Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor, and the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU.
The highlight of these chips is t... Read more
ARM splits its server chip designs, boosts performance
Neoverse V1 and N2 platforms deliver up to 50% more performance over the previous model. These new chip designs should boost the datacenter business. .
ARM has announced two new chip designs for the server market that will offer semiconductor makers an impressive jump in performance.
The n... Read more
Why the acquisition of ARM by Nvidia should be prohibited
Nvidia wants to acquire ARM from the Japanese Softbank. Both parties have agreed to the acquisition, and it is now up to the authorities to approve this takeover. Our opinion is that this takeover should be blocked. This is a bad plan for the semiconductor industry as well as for all countries that... Read more
Nvidia acquires ARM for 40 billion dollars
Nvidia has reached an agreement with investor Softbank on the acquisition of ARM. The deal is worth 40 billion U.S. dollars (33.7 billion euros).
With ARM, Nvidia wants to strengthen its focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, talks about a combined company that i... Read more
ARM reverses IoT spin-off to Softbank
ARM has reversed its plans to transfer its IoT platform Pelion and Treasure Data component to Softbank. The two components will continue independently under the management of ARM.
ARM announced in July that it would transfer its IoT divisions to its parent company SoftBank in September. At the t... Read more