UK flogs its largest fab to the Chinese
At least the Europeans didn't get it
The UK's largest chip producer, Newport Wafer Fab, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around $87 million next week. The deal comes shortly after the crown jewel of the UK tech industry, ARM, agreed to be acquired by US chip giant Nvidia for $40 billion.
Microsoft refreshes Office
Also releases ARM version
Software King of the World Microsoft has released a visually "refreshed" version of its Office desktop apps for both Windows 10 and 11.
Qualcomm ready to invest in ARM
If EU spikes Nvidia deal
Qualcomm has said that it will invest in ARM if the EU nixes Nvidia’s takeover deal.
AMD patents new microarchitecture
Similar to ARM's big.LITTLE
AMD has patented a different method of moving threads between different types of cores in a heterogeneous processor which is similar to ARM's big.LITTLE design.
Microsoft teams up with Qualcomm on ARM kit
Miniature PC out in summer
Microsoft has teamed up with Qualcomm to create a Windows on ARM-based dev kit for developers.
Oracle announces its ARM based cloud
The licence is in the mail
Oracle is giving customers more choice and flexibility with the launch of its first ARM-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.
HAProxy's load balancer handles 2.04 million requests per second
All using a single ARM Neoverse
HAProxy has announced that its HAProxy 2.3 tested on a single ARM Neoverse has achieved 2.04 million requests per second and is citing it as proof that its load balancer can scale on powerful servers with significant network bandwidth, and run on much more modest hardware while still achieving excellent results.
UK investigating ARM's sale to Nvidia
Worried about national security suddenly
The UK government is to examine the sale of computer chip designer ARM Holdings to a US company after suddenly getting worried about national security.
Nvidia's ARM bid faces opposition
Big Tech worried about antitrust concerns
The graphics card maker named after a Roman vengence daemon, Nvidia's plans to acquire British chip designer ARM fare facing challenges from Big Tech over antitrust concerns.
British watchdog barks at Nvidia's ARM take over
Competition concerns
Britain's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the $40 billion takeover of the UK-based chip designer ARM by the GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon Nvidia.