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If you wanted to make a CPU, and you’re not AMD or Intel, there are two real choices: ARM and RISC-V. But what are the differences between the two, and why do companies choose one over the other? These questions are fundamentally intertwined with differing philosophies about open source hardware and what’s best for the processor and computing industry. What are ARM and RISC-V? ARM and RISC-V are instruction set architectures, or ISAs. The ISA is the foundation of a processor and is the most fundamental and basic…

Qualcomm, the San Diego-based fabless chipmaker, has expressed an interest in acquiring a stake in Arm, the chip designer behind its Snapdragon (opens in new tab) series of desktop-bothering Arm SoCs. According to a report in the Financial Times (opens in new tab), the UK company would be bought by a consortium to maintain its neutrality.(Image credit: Arm Limited)The fate of Arm has hung in the balance since a deal by owner SoftBank to sell the UK firm to Nvidia for $66bn collapsed (opens in new tab) following legal…

Robotic skeletons designed to look and move like real humans are being investigated for growing tendons strong enough to actually transplant.If the proof-of-concept can be perfected with further research, tissue grown on humanoid robots could one day be grafted onto a real person, fixing tears in their tendons.  Today, surgeons can try their hands at repairing tendons, often transplanting a graft from another tendon in the body, but the outcomes are mixed. For more than two decades, scientists have been looking into…

Ahead of the arrival of The Game’s episode of the Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson podcast, the two have shared a preview that shows them having an arm wrestling match.In a clip shared to the Hotboxin Instagram, the two are shown arm wrestling as Tyson continues to smoke a joint. “Who wants to a see a rematch?” 55-year-old Tyson captioned the post, which The Game, 42, later shared on his Instagram Stories alongside the caption, “Rematch coming soon.” In a since-deleted post, as per the New York Post, Game added, “I beat…

The transition to ARM chips on Windows has been agonizingly slow, but Microsoft is attempting to put some better tools in the hands of developers to help things along. Just announced at Build 2022, Project Volterra is a new device that shows off the possibilities of ARM chips on Windows. To be clear — this isn’t a consumer PC. Project Volterra is a developer kit designed to “leverage the power of the Snapdragon Compute Platform,” supporting the wide range of scenarios developers can explore. Microsoft Microsoft says…

(Image credit: Nvidia)Nvidia's decision to build its own lineup of Arm-based server CPUs, dubbed the Grace CPU Superchip and the Grace Hopper Superchip, charted the company's course to building out full systems with its CPUs and GPUs in the same box. That initiative moved closer to reality today as Nvidia announced that several major server OEMs will offer dozens of reference systems based on its new Arm CPUs and Hopper GPUs in the first half of 2023.Nvidia tells us that these new systems, which we break down below, will…

WASHINGTON -- The White House is working to put advanced anti-ship missiles in the hands of Ukrainian fighters to help defeat Russia's naval blockade, officials said, amid concerns more powerful weapons that could sink Russian warships would intensify the conflict. Read More WASHINGTON -- The White House is working to put advanced anti-ship missiles in the hands of Ukrainian fighters to help defeat Russia's naval blockade, officials said, amid concerns more powerful weapons that could sink Russian warships would…

Masayoshi Son speaks during a joint announcement with Toyota Motor to make new venture to develop mobility services in Tokyo in October 2018.Alessandro Di Ciommo | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesJapanese tech conglomerate SoftBank intends to keep a majority stake in U.K. chip designer Arm when it lists the company through an initial public offering.Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's CEO, confirmed the news Thursday following a report from Bloomberg last month that cited people familiar with the matter.Son said that SoftBank plans to list…

Nvidia has scored another high-profile hire for its Arm CPU push - this time, from under Intel's nose. Rafi Marom, Intel's Design Manager at its Israel facilities and one of the managers behind the successful Tiger Lake architecture, jumped ship to Nvidia's facility based within the country. His new role as Senior CPU Director casts him as one of the premier architects for the company's future Arm products.After its multi-billion-dollar push for acquiring the U.K.-based company failed, Nvidia is seemingly doubling down…

The chairman and CEO of Arm China, who refused to give up his prestigious tech leadership role despite being fired in 2020, may have finally been pushed out of the door. A Reuters report says that Allen Wu has been replaced and that all Chinese legal processes were satisfied.The replacement of the Arm China CEO appears to be a rapidly developing story. On Wednesday, we reported on Allen Wu's exit being imminent when Arm went to court to get new business registration documents and a new seal (sometimes called a chop)…