ARM split in China over dirty deeds
Has Allen Wu been fired?
ARM has clashed publicly with its Chinese operation over the antics of the group's Chinese CEO. ARM UK insists Allen Wu has been fired for failing to disclose conflicts of interest, but he says he is still in charge.
Mali G78 is the 2021 GPU
24 cores, 25 percent perf up
ARM Mali GPUs are the number one shipping graphics processor covering gaming, XR, AI, and entertainment. ARM shared with us the updated GPU roadmap and introduced Mali-G78.
ARM introduces Ethos N78 NPU
Neural processing makes better photors
All of a sudden, everyone became a better photographer, and this is due more to machine learning and neural processing units in modern phones, rather than people mastering the skill.
Cortex X speeds up phone by 30 percent
High-performance PC SoCs too
Qualcomm introduced Prime core clocked rest from the cluster with Snapdragon 865, and Huawei had two higher clock performance cores in Kirin 990. With that in mind, ARM has introduced the Cortex-X custom program. The result is up to 30 percent peak performance compared to previous generation Cortex A77 cores.
ARM Cortex A78 to power 2021 phones
20 percent faster 5nm optimized
The next generation of phones mostly expected in early 2021, will come powered by Cortex A78 new core. The new Cortex A78 will improve performance by up to 20 percent in the same power envelope.
ARM offers help to hardware startups
Free access to its chip portfolio
ARM is hoping to imporove the use of its chips by offering up access to around 75 percent of its chip portfolio for free to qualified startups.
Apple to dump Intel and make its own computer chips
Bloomberg dusts off another old story
Apple plans to sell Mac computers with its own main processors by next year based on the chip designs currently used in its iPhones and iPads.
Huawei working on an AI GPU
As Apple settled with Imagination
Huawei, for the most part, relies on ARM IP. It uses the ARM Cortex CPU and Mali GPU cores for its SoCs. The company has high AI aspirations with its Ascend series of chips. Now recent rumors point out that the Chinese giant is setting up a GPU research center in South Korea and focuses on AI and datacenter.
Ampere creates 80-core ARM 64-bit processor
Claims it is a first
Ampere has unveiled the industry's first 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor today in a bid to outdo Intel and AMD in datacenter chips.
ARM doing rather well
More demand for its chips in the last quarter
ARM is telling us that the company shipped a record number of ARM-based chips during the last quarter.