Chinese firms object to Nvidia's ARM deal
Worried they will lose access to tech
Huawei and several other Chinese tech firms have raised concerns to local regulators about chipmaker Nvidia deal to buy UK-based chip designer ARM.
AMD will most likely buy Xilinx
Data center strategy
It is impossible to get a comment from either AMD or Xilinx on this matter, but as far as we could ask around, AMD is going to attempt to buy Xilinx. The move will help the company’s data center strategy, and it is carefully targeted.
ARM Cortex-A will be totally 64 bit by 2023
If the world is still there
Mobile chipmaker ARM has decided that its high-end smartphone and laptop-grade Cortex-A processor cores will be 64-bit only by 2023.
Intel, Qualcomm, Tesla against ARM–Nvidia merger
Exclusive: Few others, Apple maybe
Multiple well-informed sources have informed us that there is a big uprising in Silicon Valley against the proposed Nvidia–ARM acquisition. We have spoken with people from multiple technology companies, and everyone - outside ARM and Nvidia - believes that this is bad for the industry.
Microsoft working on ARM based 64-bit apps
Making sure that it can do 64 bit
Microsoft is officially revealing it’s working on x64 app emulation support for Windows on ARM.
Nvidia acquisition of ARM is good for Nvidia
Analysis: Bad for everyone else
Nvidia will take over ARM, at least it has announced its intention and the market and the stock skyrocketed, demonstrating that this looks like it is an excellent move for Nvidia. Still, a semiconductor company taking over what used to be an independent API provider doesn't resonate well.
Nvidia-ARM takeover a big win for Jensen Huang
Provided it's quarantined
Semiconductor analyst Malcolm Penn told Fudzilla today that if Nvidia plays its cards right with the ARM acquisition, people would be thinking in 10 years' time what a bargain the $40 billion buy was.
Save ARM campaign starts
Hauser wants Boris to interfere
One of ARM's co-founders has started a campaign to get the UK government to interfere in the deal to flog the outfit to Nvidia.
ARM sold to Nvidia for $40 billion
Formal announcement expected today
SoftBank is set to sell the UK's Arm to US outfit Nvidia for more than $40 billion.
ARM releases 64 bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R
It is just for storage so still a bit snoozy
ARM has announced its first 64 bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor, which it has earmarked for computational storage solutions.