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Many-Core Server Pioneer Calxeda Shuts Down Shop
Calxeda, the upstart maker of low-power microservers using hundreds of ARM CPUs, has laid off most of its staff and is shutting down all but its customer service operations.
The Year in Chips: The Old Guard vs. the New Kids
Let's review the most notable products, events, and corporate goings-on in the chip arena over the past year, plus take a look at what 2014 will bring.
Rumor: Google to Design Its Own ARM-Based Server Chips
The search giant's massive, expanding data center operations could see less Intel inside in the future, according to Bloomberg.
IBM Licenses ARM for Custom Networking, Comms Chips
IBM has licensed five ARM Cortex central processors and a Mali graphics processor design to manufacture custom-built networking and communications chips for customers.
Broadcom Announces New 64-Bit ARM Architecture
The company is developing virtualization-ready, multi-core ARMv8-A CPUs for networking and communications devices, as well as an open software platform with ARM.
Imagination Unveils MIPS-Based Warrior CPU for Mobile Devices
The chip designer makes the case for a third architecture for mobile CPUs with 32-bit design capable of supporting up to six-core mobile device processors.
Samsung, Broadcom, Others Form MobileBench Consortium
The new industry group intends to develop, standardize, and promote better hardware and system-level benchmarking resources for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
Apple's New A7 Chip Goes Under the Microscope
The folks at iFixit and Chipworks break out the electron microscope to get up close and personal with the first 64-bit ARM processor to appear in a consumer device.
Watch Angry Birds Work Your Phone's CPU
Are you using all the cores on your new quad-core phone? These videos will show you.
AMD Unveils Embedded SoC Roadmap, ARM and All
Advanced Micro Devices crashes IDF per usual, but this time Intel's smaller rival isn't talking about PCs or servers, and is sharing the stage with ARM.
Intel Lays Out Its Grand Wireless Plan, Bets Big on LTE
The chip giant was late to crash the mobile party, but Intel is determined to close the gap with rivals by leveraging its unique assets and a commitment to pushing out "bleeding edge" solutions.
Google, Nvidia Sign Onto IBM OpenPOWER Consortium
IBM hopes to reignite its flagging Power microprocessor architecture by opening up its IP for a renewed assault on Intel and ARM in the data center. But is it too little, too late?
ARM Transforming U.K. Campus Into 'Internet-of-Things' Hub
The chip design firm, with a $1.2 million grant from the U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board, is working with key partners to convert its Cambridge headquarters into an IoT test bed.
MediaTek Intros First ARM 'big.LITTLE' Chip for Tablets
The quad-core, ARM-based MT8135 System-on-a-Chip features a new GPU and ARM's big.LITTLE processing subsystem for heterogeneous multi-processing.
ARM, Oracle Strike Multi-Year Deal on Java Support
The chip design firm touts the continued Java Standard Edition support for its current and future 32-bit and 64-bit platforms as crucial to its data center and embedded offerings.
Intel's Benchmark Beatdown of ARM Looks Shakier
The AnTuTu Benchmark for Android-based devices has been revised to fix some problems that gave the Atom Z2580 an unfair advantage over competitive ARM-based chips.
Battle Brewing Over Intel-ARM Benchmarking
ABI Research claims Intel's Clover Trail+ smartphone chips are miles ahead of ARM on performance and power usage, but critics are questioning the research firm's methodology.
AMD Pivots to ARM on Servers
AMD has been hinting at major changes to its server strategy for a while now, but with its announcements of new server chips yesterday it has firmly pivoted away from a focus on the traditional two-processor and four-processor servers that drive most enterprise servers and toward lower-power, single-processor servers typically used in Web servers and cloud applications. More interestingly, it plans to take this even further next year, replacing the x86 cores in its extreme low-power server chips with new ARM-based cores. This represents an enormous shift in direction.
Intel and ARM Face Off in Tablets and Phones at Computex
This week we saw another salvo in the war between ARM architectures and x86 for smartphones and tablets as representatives from both camps squared off at Computex.
Report: AMD to Design New Chips for Android, Chrome
Advanced Micro Devices is finally open to making computer chips that run Google's Android and Chrome operating systems, according to news out of Computex.
