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Updated May 25, 2021: This piece has been updated to clarify that all Cortex-A CPU mobile cores will be 64-bit from 2023.
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Arm announced new CPUs based on its Armv9 architecture.
The company also announced several Mali GPUs.
Arm also specified that all Cortex-A CPU mobile cores will be 64-bit by 2023.
Arm announced the first Armv9 Cortex CPUs, which could bring a big boost to Windows 10 on ARM PCs and other devices. The chips are based on the new Armv9 architecture that was announced back in March and deliver up to 30% better performance than their predecessors. Arm also reiterated that all Cortex-A CPU mobile cores will be 64-bit by 2023.
Intel's Gregory Bryant shared that the company is "taping in" its 7nm Meteor Lake compute tile. Intel taping in the tile this quarter means that Meteor Lake is still on schedule for 2023.
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Arm has reportedly frozen hiring until its acquisition by NVIDIA finishes in 2022.
The company also canceled a wellbeing allowance valued up to $8,500.
The freeze is said to affect Arm s chip design wing, but other departments have also slowed hiring.
Arm has entered a hiring freeze that could potentially last until 2022, according to a report by The Register. The freeze is said to affect Arm s chip design wing, but other departments have also reportedly slowed hiring. In addition to freezing hiring, The Register reports that Arm cut a wellbeing allowance valued at up to $8,500 per year. The freeze could reportedly last until NVIDIA s acquisition of Arm finishes.
Microsoft CEO has teased that a major update is in the works for Windows, calling it the "most significant updates to Windows in the past decade." The company isn't detailing what those updates are today, but does say that it will have more to share very soon.