Chinese tech firms see Nvidia’s Arm deal as a major threat
Huawei and other Chinee technologie 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘Nvidia wants to deliver a complete data center portfolio’
Nvidia will be focusing more on the data center solutions and wants to deliver a complete portfolio for that market. This was revealed in a recent interview with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang in the Financial Times.
The interview in the business newspaper shows that Nvidia wants to become the leadin...
‘Acquisition of ARM will cost Nvidia more than 30 billion dollars’
Nvidia is supposedly in advanced talks with SoftBank for the acquisition of ARM. The chip company is rumoured to have a price tag of more than 32 billion dollars (27 billion euros).
ARM creates chip designs used by many big names in the tech world, including Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Nvidia. ...
Nvidia is reportedly talking with SoftBank about acquiring Arm
Nvidia has shown interest in acquiring SoftBank's chip manufacturer Arm. Bloomberg reported that the two companies are in early talks. This could mean a big change in the chip market.
SoftBank acquired Arm back in 2016 for $32 billion. Earlier this month, it was reported that they were exploring...
‘Apple releases 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with Arm chips this year’
Apple is releasing a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new MacBook Air with the new ARM chips this year, according to well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The two devices are scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2020.
If Kuo's reports are correct, the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro will be the firs...