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Computex 2023: Intel cedes spotlight at global tech gala to AI darling Nvidia

When Asia's biggest computing and electronics show kicked off this week, one name was conspicuously absent: Intel Corp. The US chipmaker does not have an official presence at this year's Computex exhibition, an event it once dominated through keynote speeches and an outsized footprint on the show floor. The 2023 edition opened instead with a marathon two-hour showcase by Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, a day before it became the first $1 trillion chipmaker in anticipation of a wave of demand for its…

SoftBank nominates Arm CEO Haas to join its board

SoftBank Group Corp nominated chip designer Arm Ltd's Chief Executive Rene Haas as a candidate to be a director, the Japanese technology investor said. The conglomerate regards Arm, whose technology underpins the smartphone industry and is used in supercomputers and data centre servers, as its core asset. It bought the British-based company for $32 billion in 2016. Arm said in March it would pursue a listing in the United States, dashing British government hopes it would return to the London stock market. SoftBank founder…

Chipmaker Arm to make its own semiconductor: Report

British chipmaker Arm Ltd is building its own semiconductor to showcase the capabilities of its products, as it seeks to attract new customers and fuel growth following its Initial Public Offering (IPO) later this year, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Arm will team up with manufacturing partners to develop the new semiconductor, FT said, citing people briefed on the move, adding that the company has built a new "solutions engineering" team that will lead the development of these prototype chips for mobile…

arm ltd: British chipmaker Arm to make its own semiconductor: report

British chipmaker Arm Ltd is building its own semiconductor to showcase the capabilities of its products, as it seeks to attract new customers and fuel growth following its Initial Public Offering (IPO) later this year, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.Arm will team up with manufacturing partners to develop the new semiconductor, FT said, citing people briefed on the move, adding that the company has built a new "solutions engineering" team that will lead the development of these prototype chips for mobile devices,…

Intel to work with Arm on chip manufacturing compatibility

Intel Corp on Wednesday said its chip contract manufacturing division will work with U.K.-based chip designer Arm Ltd to ensure that mobile phone chips and other products that use Arm's technology can be made in Intel's factories. Once the biggest name in chips known as central processing units (CPUs), Intel has seen long seen its technological manufacturing edge blunted by rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world leader in making chips for customers such as Apple Inc. Intel's turnaround…

Apple may kill one of its most important iPhones with iOS 17

Apple’s WWDC 2023 is just a few weeks away, which is when we expect the company to unveil new software updates for iPhone, Apple Watch, iPads, Mac, and more. This means we’ll be seeing a preview of iOS 17, watchOS 10, iPadOS 17, and macOS 14 during the conference. However, a new report seems to hint that iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 will drop support for devices that were released between November 2015 and November 2017. According to MacRumors, a source with a proven track record for upcoming software updates reports that…

SoftBank’s Arm China profit drops over 90% in 2022

Chip technology firm Arm China suffered a 90% drop in profit last year despite revenue rising more than 30% during the first year management appointed by SoftBank Group Corp took over, according to a financial document reviewed by Reuters. The company, set up in 2018 as a joint venture of British chip technology firm Arm Ltd, laid off nearly 100 employees last week, most of them engineers, Reuters reported exclusively. Arm technology powers most global smartphones and the company counts Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc as…

Why Google’s cloud unit move to Arm is not good news for Intel, AMD

Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud unit said it will start adopting computing chips based on technology from Arm Ltd, making it the latest company to join a transition that will take market share from Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices. Arm, the British chip firm that has said it plans to go public after a megadeal to be acquired by Nvidia Corp fell through earlier this year, has long supplied designs and other intellectual property that power chips for smart phones and tablets. In 2018, Arm started offering technology…