Today, Intel; tomorrow the world

Elon [look at me] Musk, Global Foundries, and Qualcomm are in Florida, where they will are rumoured to be plotting to buy Intel.

After 28 years working for Chipzilla

Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran and lead engineer on numerous Xeon server processors, has exited the company to join Qualcomm.

Up to 300 per cent

British chip technology supplier Arm wants to jack up tits royalty rates by up to 300 per cent and develop its own chips in a move that could place it in direct competition with its largest customers.

Hints at early launch

The next-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite v2 system-on-chip (SoC) could debut earlier than expected, according to industry insider Digital Chat Station.

Wants a rematch

Arm has announced plans to pursue a retrial in its high-stakes licensing lawsuit against Qualcomm after a jury in a U.S. federal court delivered a mixed verdict on Friday. While the jury ruled in Qualcomm's favour on two of the three counts, it deadlocked on the question of whether Nuvia, a company acquired by Qualcomm, had breached its agreement with Arm.

It’s mine, no it is mine

Attorneys representing Arm and Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive in a pivotal legal battle over intellectual property (IP) ownership tied to Arm's computing architecture.

Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction

After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.

Apparently, there was an intervention

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Samsung wants to stop using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors for flagship devices.

Kicked the tyres and a bit worried about the rust

Pretty much as we expected, Qualcomm has lost interest in buying Chipzilla.

 
Oryon 2 will skip PCs

Qualcomm has provided insights into the third generation of its Oryon CPU cores. It appears that Oryon 2 will skip PCs and be exclusively used in the Snapdragon 8 Elite chips.