Nearly every single smartphone sold last year uses a processor originally designed by ARM. On Tuesday, the British company announced new processor designs that will likely end up in devices in 2016… Read more »
Nearly a year ago, Chromebooks got a new feature: The ability to upload locally stored music files directly to a Google Play Music account. But there was a catch. The uploading… Read more »
Amazon has indeed agreed to purchase Annapurna Labs, a super-stealthy Israeli company that is reportedly working on new chip technology. Talks were first reported in Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist and picked up… Read more »
When Samsung introduces its Galaxy S6 smartphone, it may only have one version of the phone, not two. Typically, the company creates a phone with its own chip as well as… Read more »
The $150 Kano computer that kids (or anyone else) can build themselves and then use to learn to code, is now available to anyone. My 8-year-old daughter and I took one… Read more »
ARM has released a higher-performance microcontroller core design aimed at the the internet of things, and several chip firms are already using it. Read more »
Does the smart home need a new network? Some really big companies have created Thread, a new standard that aims to supplant Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee as the ideal radio tech… Read more »
Nvidia has teamed up with ARM to offer a combo of graphics processors and ARM-based CPUs for the high performance computing market. But is ARM ready to take on HPC? Read more »
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don’t gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA. Read more »