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Feb 7, 2021 09:43 EST Chip designer NVIDIA Corporations bid to acquire British design house Arm Ltd. has received fresh opposition from AI accelerator and machine learning chip developer Graphcore. Graphcore, which is based in the United Kingdom, plans to develop what it dubs as an Intelligent Processing Unit - a large chip that is responsible for all of the artificial intelligence operations inside a system, with the companys latest GC200 chip expected to house a staggering 59 billion tra...

2 months ago SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#GSAnews–The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)Board of Directors has appointed Simon Segars, CEO of Arm, as its Chair. Over the past two years, Segars has served as Vice Chair working in concert with Dr. Lisa Su, President and CEO of AMD and outgoing GSA Chair, to guide the expansion of GSA’s ecosystem to include software, services, solutions and systems. To support this expanded vision, GSA launched several...

Who should run VMware? Sizing up the likely candidates Notable great picks would be Jim Whitehurst of IBM, or Simon Segars of ARM, but a less obvious pick such as Okta’s Alvina Antar could set the company on a new path. January 27, 2021 -- 18:14 GMT (10:14 PST) | Topic: VMWare Lots of talent is out there that VMware could benefit from, including, from left, Okta CIO Alvina Antar, IBM President and former Red H...

UKtech50 2021: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology Our judges have picked a shortlist, and now we invite readers to tell us who should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for 2021 – submit your vote now Share this item with your network: By Published: 21 Jan 2021 14:04 Computer Weekly has opened voting for the annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology – the CIOs, industry executives, public servants an...

But Qualcomm wont just use Nuvias high-performance and battery efficient technology for data centers. It plans to bring the innovations to its mobile, computer and auto processors.

Qualcomm pays $1.4B for Nuvia, a server chip designer founded by ex-Apple execs But Qualcomm wont just use Nuvias high-performance and battery efficient technology for data centers. It plans to bring the innovations to its mobile, computer and auto processors. Listen - 06:39 Nuvia has been trying to change data centers by designing high-performance chips that are more power efficient like mobile processors. ...

The UK-based chip designer, which dominates smartphones, now is trying to fix lackluster PC performance.

Apple M1 Macs are kick-starting a new Arm-based PC era. Arms CEO is optimistic The UK-based chip designer, which dominates smartphones, now is trying to fix lackluster PC performance. Listen - 05:19 For years, computer makers have tried to sell PCs built on Arm processors, a power-efficient family that powers smartphones. Compared with models running on x86 chips from Intel and AMD, though, Arm-based PCs have suffered from performance and software compat...

Nvidia announced that it had signed up to a $40bn cash and shares agreement to acquire Arm from SoftBank in mid-September 2020. SoftBank would retain a 10 per cent interest and current CEO, Simon Segars, heralded the deal as a good match, with Arm and Nvidia sharing a vision for energy efficient computing to address a host of pressing issues, with strong commitment to long term R&D to reach their goals. About a week later Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang indicated that we would "enter legally binding d...

Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images The Mistral supercomputer, installed in 2016 at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ, or Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum) in Hamburg, Germany, photographed in 2017 After Moore’s Law: How Will We Know How Much Faster Computers Can Go? From scientists to vendors and enterprises, the computing industry needs a way to predict what’s coming and when. Moore’s Law doesn’t appear to be working anymore. In 1965, Intel founder Gordon Moo...