
All Arm-based chips are M1 apparently
Tame Apple Press loses the plot
This morning a Tame Apple Press report crossed our desk claimed that Qualcomm was daring to make M1 chips to compete against Apple.

Arm wrestles control of Chinese joint venture back
Wu claims he was wronged
Arm has regained control of its Chinese joint venture according to Nikkei and Reuters.

Wants to de-Wu its Chinese operation
Arm has moved to regain control of its renegade China unit and replace its chief executive Allen Wu, as the UK chip designer seeks to clear its path to a successful public listing.

Microsoft supports ARM on Azure
Virtually
Microsoft has announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines thanks to its work with Ampere Computing.

ARM fires 1000 staff
Lead up to IPO
ARM has told 1000 of its staff to clear out their desks and get themselves onto a dole queue as it prepares itself for an IPO.

All US patents are now the property of glorious new Russia
Tsar Putin has officially authorised the use of patent theft by Russian companies if the technology comes from a country that does not bless his regime.

Spectre is back from the dead
Harder to kill than Dracula
The embarrassing defect in Intel CPUs Spectre appears to have made a comeback.

Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung sign up
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung have signed up to a Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium.

Nvidia and SoftBank terminate acquisition of Arm
Its officially over, Nvidia gets a 20-year license and SoftBank $1.25B
Back in September 2021, we have addressed that Nvidia's acquisition of Arm is very uncertain. Even back in September 2020, when the deal was officially announced, I raised serious concerns that the deal was good for Nvidia and bad for everyone else.

Nvidia close to abandoning ARM plans
SoftBank to prepare IPO
Despite denying it, Nvidia is preparing to give up on the $40 billion acquisition it had planned for British semiconductor company ARM.