ARM shows off its new smartphone chips
In the shops in 2020
ARM has been showing off its new Arm Cortex-A77 CPU core and Mali-G77 graphics part, designed for premium smartphones slated for launch next year.
Lenovo showcases a 5G Snapdragon 8cx PC
Computex 19: X55 modem inside, pictured
Qualcomm and Lenovo showcased the world’s first 5G PC at Computex. The PC is based on Qualcomm’s 8cx platform and comes with additional 5G connectivity. Lenovo calls this design "Project Limitless", based on world’s first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs.
ARM severs links with Huawei
This is all getting alARMing
British based ARM has told its employees that cooperation with Chinese giant Huawei must stop.
Qualcomm abandons Guizhou venture
Walks away from $570 million joint investment
A joint venture between US smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and China’s Guizhou province will shut down by the end of the month.
Apple abandoning Intel chips on Macs
Wants to move to ARM
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that Apple is going to move its Macs off Intel chips and run something based on ARM.
Open sorcerers work to ARM Ubuntu
2019 will be the year of the Linux laptop
A team of open sorcerers are trying to get Linux on Qualcomm-powered laptops from HP, Asus, and Lenovo.
DIY 24 Core ARM computer motherboard appears
SinoVoIP enables Arm Server in the home
SinoVoIP is releasing a version of its Banana Pi boards which enables you to build a 24-core ARM server.
ARM pit smelling chip devised
Pings if you pong
UK chip maker ARM is working on a new generation of smart chips that embed artificial intelligence inside devices, one of which is being taught to smell.
Amazon finds ARM Graviton processor more efficient
Cloudy solutions
Amazon is to deploy an ARM-based Graviton processor. The e-commerce giant says this will lead to cost savings of up 45 per cent for "scale-out" services.
5nm mobile chips to arrive in late 2020
Industry contacts shared
The mobile industry is definitely outpacing the manufacturing progress of both GPUs and CPUs and this is not going to change anytime soon. Apple lead the industry with millions of 7nm A12 SoCs, Huawei and Qualcomm are joining in, while the PC industry will get them slightly later with much smaller volumes and with the help of small AMD.