ARM shakes fist at X86 notebook hegemony
And Microsoft seems keen too...
We've waited years and years for ARM to offer a real challenge to Intel on the notebook front, and judging from what the company announced today in Old Taiwan, 2019 could be when Chipzilla discovers it has an Achilles' heel. Intel isn't invulnerable, despite its size, demonstrated, for example, by the way it totally missed the boat on the smartphone front.
Microsoft exec talks 64-bit on Snapdragon
Exclusive: 64-bit SDK coming
We had a chance to ask Erin Chappelle, General Manager of the Windows and Device group of Microsoft, and lead player of Windows 10 on Snapdragon about the lack of 64-bit emulation support at launch.
Chipzilla's profits rise nine percent over last year
But the money is in the datacentre
Intel reported profits nine per cent higher than last year, but most of its money came from a rush on its products ear marked for the datacentre rather than its PC bread and butter.
Qualcomm shows Windows 10 on Snapdragon 835
Qualcomm set to disrupt the current Mobile PC market
Today Qualcomm announced OEM partners for Snapdragon Mobile PCs and we have a few more details about the Snapdragon 835 powered WIndows 10 powered platform.
AMD focuses on Zen X86 this year
K12 ARM future unconfirmed
We're not sure if many people caught the fact that in last week's financial analyst update, AMD didn’t mention anything about the K12 and future ARM server products. We reached out and asked it for a comment.
ARM is coming back to mobile devices in a big way
The x86 battle is about to get a lot hotter
Qualcomm is expected to show its ARM goodies at Computex event
Windows 10 demo was on Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm president confirms multiple chipset support
Just five days ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 has full support for Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs and everyone jumped to the conclusion expecting that only the Snapdragon 835 and the future SoCs are supported. It turns out that the device on stage was based on Snapdragon 821 confirming that Windows 10 runs on the current generation too.
Intel’s Puma 6 chip-set falls asleep
Serious latency problems
One of the world’s most popular chipsets for gigabit broadband modems, Intel's Puma 6 chipset, suffers from at latency jitter so bad it ruins online gaming and other real-time connections.
Linus explains why he prefers x86
Weak arm policy
It’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has been explaining why he is not a big fan of ARM chips.
Intel CEO loses touch with reality
Opinion: INTC goes bonkers
The CEO of Intel is trying to pretend that talking about virtual reality is masking the reality that his company has become irrelevant.