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Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced its holdings in Astera Labs, all as part of a broader effort to manage costs and recover cash amid significant financial challenges. The sale of Intel's 1.18 million shares in Arm Holdings, as reported in a recent SEC filing, comes at a time when the company is struggling with substantial financial losses. Despite the $147 million generated from the sale, Intel reported a $120 million net loss on its equity investments for the quarter, which is a part of a larger $1.6 billion loss that Intel faced during this period. In addition to selling its stake in...
Understanding Meltdown & Spectre: What To Know About New Exploits That Affect Virtually All CPUs
It seems only fitting that one of the two hardware based exploits to rock the CPU world this week was named Meltdown. Because for the last 24 hours or...
210 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2018Western Digital to Use RISC-V for Controllers, Processors, Purpose-Built Platforms
Western Digital recently announced plans to use the RISC-V ISA across its existing product stack as well as for future products that will combine processing and storage. The company...
10 by Anton Shilov on 12/14/2017Microsoft Launches Windows 10 On ARM: Always Connected PCs
This morning at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Microsoft’s EVP of Windows and Devices, Terry Myerson, is announcing the introduction of the first Windows 10 PCs to be...
59 by Brett Howse on 12/5/2017MediaTek Reveals MT2621 SoC for IoT: Arm7 MCU, Integrated GPRS/NB-IoT Modem
MediaTek this week announced a new SoC designed for ultra-low-power autonomous IoT applications such as wearables, security sensors, and similar devices. The MT2621 SoC integrates basic computational capabilities...
3 by Anton Shilov on 11/30/2017Marvell to Acquire Cavium for $5.5 Billion, Augmenting Marvell's CPU, Networking, & Security Assets
Marvell and Cavium on Monday announced that they had reached a definitive buyout agreement. Under the terms of the transaction, Marvell will acquire all outstanding shares of Cavium for...
11 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2017Qualcomm Launches 48-core Centriq for $1995: Arm Servers for Cloud Native Applications
Following on from the SoC disclosure at Hot Chips, Qualcomm has this week announced the formal launch of its new Centriq 2400 family of Arm-based SoCs for cloud applications...
37 by Ian Cutress on 11/10/2017Arm Announces New Mali-D71 Display Processor and IP Blocks
Today, Arm is announcing their Mali-D71 display processor and two closely-related IP blocks, CoreLink MMU-600 and Assertive Display 5, angling for 4K VR and HDR implementations on mobile displays...
13 by Nate Oh on 10/31/2017Hands-on & More With Huawei's Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro: Kirin 970 Meets Artificial Intelligence
This morning Huawei is taking the wraps off of their latest generation flagship smartphone, the Mate 10 series. Powered by subsidiary HiSilicon’s Kirin 970 SoC, the new phones are...
103 by Ian Cutress on 10/16/2017Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro Launch: Live Blog (2pm CEST, 8am ET, Noon UTC)
Huawei is having a launch event for its new Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones. The key headline for these devices is going to be the support for...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/16/2017TSMC Teams Up with ARM and Cadence to Build 7nm Data Center Test Chips in Q1 2018
TSMC has announced plans to build its first test chips for data center applications using its 7 nm fabrication technology. The chip will use compute cores from ARM, a...
12 by Anton Shilov on 9/14/2017Huawei Shows Unannounced Kirin 970 at IFA 2017: Dedicated Neural Processing Unit
A surprise at this year’s IFA is the previously unannounced Kirin 970 SoC hitting the show floor. Normally Huawei announces a new SoC with plenty of press details, and...
11 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2017Kontron Merges with S&T, Gets Access to Software, Manufacturing
Kontron and S&T Deutschland Holding on Monday announced that shareholders of both companies have agreed to merge the two companies. Kontron, which is known for its servers, small form-factor...
2 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2017ARM Announces Mali-G72: Bifrost Refined for the High-End SoC
While the bulk of the focus in today’s ARM announcements is on major launch of the first CPU cores to support ARM’s DynamIQ topology – the Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A75...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2017Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55
Another year, another TechDay, and another ARM facility (this time in Cambridge, UK)—can only mean new ARM IP. Over the span of several days, we got an in-depth look...
104 by Matt Humrick on 5/29/2017AT20 Giveaway Day 15: ARM Connects You with Chromebooks
With a warm welcome to Tuesday, we’re now on day 15 of our 20 day giveaway celebration of AnandTech’s 20th anniversary. Today’s prizes come courtesy of ARM. While not a...
516 by Ryan Smith on 5/16/2017ARM Announces Mali-Cetus, Their Next-Generation Display Processor
This morning ARM is taking the wraps off another new product in their Mali graphics portfolio: the Mali-Cetus. The oddly named product (ed: this is a codename, not the...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2017ARM Announces Mali-C71: Their First Automotive-Grade Image Signal Processor
ARM’s success in the CPU IP field has and remains the cornerstone of the company, but it has not been a company that sits idle. Over the years &ndash...
12 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2017Lenovo Launches 2-in-1 Flex 11 Chromebook: Quad-Core SoC, 4 GB RAM, from $279
Lenovo has announced its first 2-in-1 Chromebook designed specifically for consumers. The Flex 11 laptop is powered by an SoC with four ARM cores, features a 360° hinge, a...
30 by Anton Shilov on 4/22/2017ARM Launches DynamIQ: big.Little to Eight Cores Per Cluster
Most users delving into SoCs know about ARM core designs over the years. Initially we had single CPUs, then paired CPUs and then quad-core processors, using early ARM cores...
35 by Ian Cutress on 3/21/2017Bosch and NVIDIA Team Up for Xavier-Based Self-Driving Systems for Mass Market Cars
Bosch and NVIDIA on Thursday announced plans to co-develop self-driving systems for mass-market vehicles. The solutions will use NVIDIA’s next-generation codenamed Xavier SoC as well as the company’s AI-related...
43 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2017