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According to fresh SEC filings from Arm, the chip IP designer has secured a slew of industry investors ahead of the company's impending IPO. Aiming for a strong start to what Reuters reports is projected to be a $52 billion IPO valuation, Arm has been seeking out major industry customers as cornerstone investors, successfully lining up nearly a dozen companies from their efforts. Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million of Arm's American Depositary Shares (ADS), SoftBank, the owner of Arm, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the exact number of shares to be purchased has not been disclosed – and may...
Apacer Launches 32-Bit SODIMM for Arm & RISC-V Systems
Apacer has announced a lineup of 32-bit SO-DIMMs designed for systems based on processors featuring Arm, RISC, or RISC-V architectures. The memory modules will enable SoC developers to take...
5 by Anton Shilov on 11/26/2018
Arm Delivers on Cortex A76 Promises: What it Means for 2019 Devices
In the grand scheme of things, it hasn’t been all that long since we first covered Arm’s announcement of the new Cortex A76 CPU microarchitecture. The new CPU IP...
99 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/20/2018
Huawei Server Efforts: Hi1620 and Arm’s Big Server Core, Ares
For at least four years now, Arm has been pushing its efforts to be a big part of the modern day server, the modern day data center, and in...
12 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2018
Just When You Thought It Was Dead: Qualcomm Centriq Arm Server Systems Spotted
Much to our surprise, we saw a Qualcomm Centriq server from an OEM at Supercomputing this week.
7 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018
Arm Announces Neoverse Infrastructure IP Branding & Future Roadmap
Among of the first announcements coming out of Arm’s TechCon convention in San Jose, is the unveiling of Arm’s new infrastructure branding and a sneak peek at the product...
5 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/16/2018
Arm TechCon 2018 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1pm ET)
We're here at the San Jose Convention Center for Arm's annual developer conference and tech showcase, TechCon. Arm of course needs no introduction, and while the company is an...
0 by Ryan Smith on 10/16/2018
Arm Unveils Arm Safety Ready Initiative, Cortex-A76AE Processor
The market of automobiles is changing. Modern cars use more electronics than ever and adoption of electronic components in general and processors in particular is not going to slow...
27 by Anton Shilov on 9/26/2018
AMD Wins Patent Infringement Case Against Vizio & Others; Vizio Ordered To Cease Some TV Imports
AMD has won a round in its legal battle against makers of TVs at the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC). The Commission found that Vizio and Sigma...
58 by Anton Shilov on 8/24/2018
Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018
Hot Chips 2018: Arm's Machine Learning Core Live Blog
Arm officially announced Project Trillium earlier this year, as a way to bring machine learning to the Arm ecosystem. As part of the trade show today, we have a...
3 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018
GIGABYTE's Cavium ThunderX2 Systems: 1U R181-T90 and 2U R281-T91
GIGABYTE's server division has started sales of its first servers based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 processors with up to 32 cores. Being among the primary companies to begin selling machines...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2018
Arm Unveils Client CPU Performance Roadmap Through 2020 - Taking Intel Head On
Today’s announcement is an oddball one for Arm as we see the first-ever public forward looking CPU IP roadmap detailing performance and power projections for the next two generations...
102 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/16/2018
Lenovo’s Miix 630 Snapdragon 835-Based 2-in-1 Now Available
Lenovo has started to sell its Miix 630 always-connected PC based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC and Microsoft’s Windows 10 S. The system weighs around 1.4 kilograms yet promises...
34 by Anton Shilov on 7/10/2018
Arm and Samsung Extend Artisan POP IP Collaboration to 7LPP and 5LPE Nodes
Arm and Samsung Foundry this week announced plans to extend their collaboration to 7LPP and 5LPE process technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Arm will offer Samsung Foundry...
23 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2018
ARM Announces Mali-V76 Video Processor: Planning For the 8K Video Future
Alongside today’s 76-series CPU and GPU announcements from Arm, the company also has one last product announcement for the day. Joining Arm’s video processor family is a new encode/decode...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2018
Arm's Cortex-A76 CPU Unveiled: Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm
Another year, another TechDay from Arm. Over the last several years Arm’s event has come as clockwork in the May timeframe and has every time unveiled the newest flagship...
123 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/31/2018
Arm Announces Mali-G76 GPU: Scaling up Bifrost
It’s been two years since Arm announced their first “next-generation” GPU architecture based on Bifrost and alongside with it its first implementation the G71. Following its release in the...
25 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 5/31/2018
Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by Johan De Gelas on 5/23/2018
ARM Details "Project Trillium" Machine Learning Processor Architecture
Arm first announced Project Trillium machine learning IPs back in February and we were promised we’d be hearing more about the product in a few months’ time. Project Trillium...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/22/2018
Qualcomm’s Server Lead, Anand Chandrasekher, Leaves Company
Today Axios is reporting that Anand Chandrasekher, the leading executive in charge of Qualcomm’s server efforts, has left the company. Qualcomm has declined to comment on the departure at...
23 by Ian Cutress on 5/14/2018
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