Arm
In 2016, Intel's now-defunct Custom Foundry business and Arm teamed up to bring Arm's Artisan Physical IP and POP IP for its ARM Cortex-A processor cores to Intel's 10nm process. What was meant to be a long-term deal and collaboration subsequently turned out to be anything but, as Intel closed its Custom Foundry Business in 2018 due to issues with its manufacturing. Fast forward to 2021, and Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger laid out plans as part of its IDM 2.0 strategy and created a new Foundry Service called Intel Foundry Services (IFS). Since the launch of Intel's Foundry Services, it has signed agreements and partnerships with several companies, including MediaTek, and the acquisition of Tower Semiconductors for $5.4 billion. Intel's latest deal involves a new...
Fujitsu Preps Monaka Datacenter CPU to Succeed A64FX: Greater Efficiency and More Features
Fujitsu has revealed that the company is prepping the successor for its A64FX processor for high-performance computing. The company's second-generation Arm-based server CPU is slated to offer considerably higher...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/10/2023Arm Announces Neoverse V2 and E2: The Next Generation of Arm Server CPU Cores
Just under four years ago, Arm announced their Neoverse family of infrastructure CPU designs. Deciding to double-down on the server and edge computing markets by designing Arm CPU cores...
39 by Ryan Smith on 9/15/2022The Apple WWDC 2022 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
As we round the corner after Computex and transition into June, it's time once more for Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference. As always, Apple kicks off WWDC with...
32 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 6/6/2022Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2022Lenovo Announces The ThinkPad X13s Laptop, Powered By Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3
During the MWC 2022 trade show in Barcelona, Lenovo unveiled the first laptop powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip, the ThinkPad X13s. Using a passively-cooled design...
52 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/1/2022NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition Officially Nixed, SoftBank to IPO Arm Instead
NVIDIA’s year-and-a-half long effort to acquire Arm has come to an end this morning, as NVIDIA and Arm owner SoftBank have announced that the two companies are officially calling...
108 by Ryan Smith on 2/8/2022Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2022United States FTC Files Lawsuit to Block NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
In the biggest roadblock yet to NVIDIA’s proposed acquisition of Arm, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this afternoon that the regulatory body will be suing...
175 by Ryan Smith on 12/2/2021Qualcomm x Nuvia: Silicon Sampling in Late 2022, Products in 2023
One of the more curious acquisitions in the last couple of years has been that of Nuvia by Qualcomm. Nuvia was a Silicon Valley start-up founded by the key...
51 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/18/2021NVIDIA Announces Jetson AGX Orin: Modules and Dev Kits Coming In Q1’22
Today as part of NVIDIA’s fall GTC event, the company has announced that the Jetson embedded system kits will be getting a refresh with NVIDIA’s forthcoming Orin SoC. Due...
19 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2021European Union Regulators Open Probe Into NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
Following an extended period of regulatory uncertainly regarding NVIDIA’s planned acquisition of Arm, the European Union executive branch, the European Commission, has announced that they have opened up a...
39 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2021The Arm DevSummit 2021 Keynote Live Blog: 8am PT (15:00 UTC)
This week seems to be Arm's week across the tech industry. Following yesterday's Arm SoC announcements from Apple, today sees Arm kick off their 2021 developer's summit, aptly named...
21 by Ryan Smith on 10/19/2021The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing it to 128 Cores per Socket
Following last year’s 80-core Altra, Ampere is now delivering the new Altra Max server processor with up to 128 cores, double that of the competition, and with a focus...
62 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/7/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: DPU + IPUs (Arm, NVIDIA, Intel)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon
Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021SPEC Updates SERT Suite for ISO-Compliant Server Energy Efficiency Benchmarking
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPEC SERT Suite has evolved as the industry-standard for measuring the energy efficiency of servers over the last decade. Regulatory authorities such as the...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/15/2021The Apple WWDC 2021 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
As things slowly get back to normal, Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference is taking virtual place this week in its traditional early-June slot. As always, Apple kicks off...
34 by Ryan Smith on 6/7/2021Arm Announces New Mali-G710, G610, G510 & G310 Mobile GPU Families
Today alongside the CPU announcements, Arm is also unveiling a whole family of third generation Valhall GPUs with the Mali-G710, G510, G310, with particularly large improvements in the mid-...
30 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/25/2021Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510
Today Arm is announcing a whole cluster of Armv9 client CPUs: The Cortex-X2: A flagship core with more performance and deeper OOO, the Cortex-A710: a power-efficient performance core, and...
181 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/25/2021