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Qualcomm pays $1.4B for Nuvia, a server chip designer founded by ex-Apple execs But Qualcomm won't just use Nuvia's 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. Getty Images Qualcomm is betting big on a company designing powerful but power-efficient chip...

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. Arm's 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 compatibility shortcomings. Now Apple's M1 processors, the Apple-designed member of the Arm family that p...

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 documents with everybody," to reassure those with oversight of the deal that there would be no brain ...

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 Moore observed that there was a virtuous cycle to expanding the breadth of transistors “crammed,” a...