Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
Legal constraints meant it went to Arm
Nvidia’s Project Denver was supposed to be based on x86 tech, but things took a turn thanks to legal wranglings involving Transmeta’s Tokamak technology. Instead, Nvidia had to pivot to Arm, and the rest is history.
Arm boss sad about Kicking Pat’s exit
Intel used to be a contender
Arm's CEO Rene Haas has told the Verge he is sad to see Chipzilla suffering so much.
Intel’s shares fall on the back of Arrow Lake disaster
Chipzilla can’t get a break
Chipzilla’s share price took a significant hit today, dropping nearly 4.5 per cent as the Cocane Nose Jobs of Wall Street decided that the company’s Arrow Lake launch was a damp squib.
Nvidia is building a CPU
Taking on Intel and AMD
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Nvidia is building a CPU for consumer PCs, marking a step into territory dominated by AMD and Chipzilla.
Arm threatens Qualcomm
Will take your licence away if you don’t pull your socks up
British chip design firm Arm has warned Qualcomm that it will take away its chip design licence, escalating a legal dispute that has been ongoing since 2022.
Arm tried to buy a slice of Intel
Chipzilla said it was not that desperate yet
Intel rejected an offer from the British chip designer Arm to buy its manufacturing operations.
RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86
Torvalds’ prophecy
The softly spoken Linux prophet, Linus Torvalds has been consulting his bones and concluded that RISC-V might fall into the same development chasm between hardware and software developers seen by Arm and x86.
Arm brings ASR upscaler to mobile
Better visuals
Arm has released some new tech which it claims can bring advanced upscaling capabilities to mobile gaming, promising better visuals and improved efficiency.
MediaTek working on ARM for Windows SoC
Will push it as soon as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires
According to a report from Reuters, MediaTek is allegedly working hard on an ARM-based SoC for Windows-based laptops and could launch it as soon as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires.
ARM’s aspiration to capture 50 percent of the PC market is optimistic
Took AMD seven years of Zen to get 20 - 25 percent of laptop
ARM's CEO, Rene Haas, is extremely optimistic, claiming that ARM will capture 50 percent of the PC market share within five years. It has been five years since ARM introduced the Cortex X1, which, apart from the Qualcomm 8CX Gen 3, has not made a significant impact on the market.