It looks like Qualcomm is rethinking its interest of acquiring Intel's chip design business over increasing complexity, regulatory hurdles, and more.
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Intel has reportedly rejected Arm Holding's offer about a potential acquisition of Intel's product division.
A new report reveals that ARM is working on a home-baked semiconductor chip to flex its muscles. The company wants to attract more customers and fuel growth following its IPO later this year.
ARM has determined that it will not be able to sell its latest Neoverse V series chips to Alibaba due to concerns that the U.S. and the U.K. will not approve the necessary export licenses.
Arm has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm and its subsidiary Nuvia for allegedly breaching license agreements and trademark infringements. Arm wants Qualcomm to destroy certain Nuvia designs as well.
A new report says AMD is bringing a new "dual-chiplet" design approach for its next-gen flagship X670 chipset on Socket AM5. Additionally, the report also claims that AM5 won't have DDR4 support.
Nvidia is impressed with the chip making capabilities of NVCell, its AI chip designer. The firm says that it using it, just two GPUs can do nearly the same work that takes ten people a year's time.
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Google says its AI can design microprocessor floorplans much faster and better than any human can. The neural network is learning this trade through a method called reinforcement learning.
Using a trained deep reinforcement learning model, a team at Google calculated the optimal chip placement on an IC—a problem that would have taken several weeks for human experts to solve.
Broadcom has announced that it has entered into new multi-year agreements with Apple that will see the San Jose firm provide components for Apple's devices released through the middle of 2023.
Huawei is back to business with ARM after the British semiconductor firm restored its supply of chip designs to the Chinese phone maker. But it's still set to lose access to other tech next month.
