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Despite Apple’s claims, the new M1 Ultra chip’s GPU cannot outperform that of Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 chip. The graph Apple showed off during the M1 Ultra’s announcement (above) shows the chip outperforming the “highest-end discrete GPU” at a fraction of the power. That discrete GPU is the RTX 3090. The problem is the focus […]

British chip designer Arm is cutting up to 15 percent of its workforce, just a month after a $40 billion USD takeover from chipmaker Nvidia collapsed. Arm CEO Rene Haas, who only joined the company in February this year, told staff on Monday that between 12 percent to 15 percent of staff will be made...

Nvidia and SoftBank have confirmed the termination of the Arm acquisition, which has faced multiple investigations since it was first announced. Graphics giant Nvidia will no longer be spending $40 billion USD to acquire Arm, parent company SoftBank has announced, citing "significant regulatory challenges." "Arm has a bright future, and we’ll continue to support them...

NVIDIA might be relinquishing its efforts to acquire chip maker Arm after facing numerous hurdles presented by regulators. Bloomberg reports that NVIDIA is quietly preparing to abandon its $40 billion USD acquisition of Arm from Softbank in the wake of pushback from Arm partners and regulatory scrutiny. As a result, Softbank will likely look at taking...

Nvidia on Thursday announced the launch of the Fortnite closed beta for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices on its GeForce Now cloud gaming platform (via The Verge). The uber-popular battle royale game has been sorely missed on mobile devices ever since it was removed from the App Store in August 2020 for violating Apple's developer guidelines (and...

The US Federal Trade Commission wants to block Nvidia's Arm takeover as it believes the combined company will stifle competition. According to a press release from the FTC, Nvidia's contentious acquisition of UK chip designer Arm is facing yet another roadblock as the Commission is suing Nvidia to block the deal. The acquisition has been...

[caption id="attachment_363087" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] Image: Max Tech on YouTube[/caption] At its 'Unleashed' event last month, Apple unveiled new 14" and 16" MacBook Pro models powered by next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. In a recently published YouTube video, Max Tech pits a 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro with a 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU against a...

Nvidia launched its new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti graphics cards at the virtual Computex 2021 event in Taiwan. Nvidia officially announced the long-awaited GeForce RTX 3080 Ti during its Computex keynote late Monday night, and the graphics card looks quite impressive. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti also made its debut with faster...

Aimed at handling the most complicated computing work, Nvidia is getting ready to produce its own microprocessing chips for servers to compete directly with Intel, which has more than 90% of the market share in server processors, Bloomberg is reporting.  The report notes that Nvidia has designed a central processing uni (CPU) based on technology from Arm,...

Nvidia has announced that it has entered an agreement with SoftBank to acquire Arm in a $40 billion deal. The semiconductor design company Arm provides high-performance chip architecture licences to companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. The deal was confirmed through a press release issued by Nvidia. The company has said that Arm will...

Citing sources familiar with the matter, a report by Bloomberg is claiming that Nvidia is in advanced talks with SoftBank Group to acquire its chip company Arm, which it had bought for $32 billion four years ago. The sources added that the two parties aim to reach a deal within the next few weeks. The sources further...

Despite the fact that Apple hasn’t sold a Mac Pro that can officially accept a PCIe video card in almost half a decade, NVIDIA has announced that it will be releasing macOS drivers for its Pascal architecture GPUs. According to AnandTech, the official reason why NVIDIA is releasing a Mac driver to a market that is pretty...