ARM chips

Japanese company SoftBank has announced that it will acquire Cambridge, UK-based chip designer ARM Holdings for more than $32 billion in cash, a strong bet on the future of the Internet of things. The deal is subject to the approval of ARM’s shareholders and of the English court (via the Financial Times, the WSJ). “ARM will...

Apple's future plans may involve the launch of ARM-based Macs, says well-connected and often reliable KGI Securities' Ming Chi Kuo in a note issued to investors and obtained by MacRumors. Kuo looked forward to 2015 and 2016 and penned his forecast of Apple's chips and the manufacturers supplying it. TSMC could lose the A9 chip...

Apple’s A8 chip manufacturing partner, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and ARM have announced the result of their joint effort: they’ve created a new 16nm processor that Apple could adopt for its next generation iDevices. The new processor is the result of a key FinFET (FF) silicon validation of the ARM big.LITTLE implementation using ARM...

Bloomberg Businessweek’s profile on How ARM Came to Rule the World, thanks in part to Apple, which I'm sure most of you probably already knew about: Then, in 1990, a new and determined customer arrived: Apple. The Mac maker had developed plans for a handheld computer and wanted a breakthrough microprocessor for the device. Apple,...

Intel partner Altera has announced that the world’s largest semiconductor chip company will start manufacturing 64-bit ARM chips starting 2014, Forbes reports. The news comes as a surprise move in Intel’s push to break ARM’s position in the mobile market. “It’s huge. Imagine ARM’s most powerful and technologically advanced 64-bits processor built on Intel’s leading-edge...