Qualcomm planning Deca-Core Snapdragon 818 SoC
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Following MediaTek

It appears that MediaTek's move to bring out an octa-core processor has disturbed the mighty Qualcomm.

Getting the Power back
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IBM takes on Xeon

Biggish blue is upgrading its Power chips so that they can better compete with Intels Haswell-EX Xeon E7 v3 processors.

Carrizo shipped to China
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Not for the west yet

AMD has begun shipping its first "Carrizo" chips, the Carrizo-L – at least if you live in China.

Top chipmakers in open source MIPS push
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Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom sign up

Qualcomm Atheros, Lantiq (part of Intel) and Broadcom have joined the Prpl Foundation.

Russia banking on home grown chips
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Putin on the Bits

A Russian firm announced its intention to build its own homegrown CPUs as part of a cunning plan to keep the Americans from spying on the glorious Empire of Tsar Putin and oil oligarchs.