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Apple To Replace Mac Intel Chips With In-House Processor – Bloomberg
Fresh media report suggests Apple is just a week away from official announcement of the replacement of Mac Intel processors with its own chips
AWS Developing Powerful Data Centre Chip – Report
Second generation data centre chip is being designed by Amazon Web Services, based on ARM technology
ARM Will Continue To Supply Huawei With Chip Tech
British chip designer ARM will continue to supply Huawei with chip designs, after ruling the designs do not contain any US tech
Government Invests £36m To Bolster Chip Cyber Defence
Additional £36 million in funding as government teams up with chip designer ARM to bolster chip level cyber security for businesses
Apple Poaches Top ARM Engineer
One of ARM’s top chip engineers has been hired by Apple as it seeks to expand its inhouse expertise
China Summons Tech Firms Over Huawei Blacklisting
Come into my office. Big name tech firms summoned by Chinese government after American ban
ARM Memo Tells Staff To Halt Huawei Work – Report
ARM becomes latest chip firm to distance itself from Chinese firm after memo tells staff to halt co-operation
Fully Automated Vehicles ‘More Than Ten Years Away’
Developers see major technical challenges in making automated cars road-worthy – and adapting to a regulatory environment that doesn’t yet exist
Huawei Launches Server Chipset To Lessen US Reliance
Chinese firm pledges to continue Intel partnership and insists chipset is complimentary, not competitive
Amazon AWS Puts Custom ARM Server Chip Into The Cloud
re:Invent 2018: AWS says the custom-built ‘Graviton’ chip, based on a design originally aimed at high-end smartphones, can slash costs when running scale-out workloads like containerised microservices
Fujitsu Gives First Details On ARM-Powered Supercomputer Chip
Fujitsu’s custom chip, the first to use supercomputing extensions to the ARMv8-A instruction set, is set to come into operation with the post-K supercomputer around 2021
Details Emerge Of Qualcomm’s ARM-Based Desktop Chip
The ‘Snapdragon 1000’ aims to take on Intel in laptops and desktops with smaller chips that use less power
ARM Chip Safeguards IoT Physical Security
The Cortex-M35P chip protects against proximity-based attacks that can target critical infrastructure
ARM, HPE, SUSE To Build UK Supercomputer For AI Research
The supercomputer is to be powered by ARM and SUSE Linux and sited in clusters at Edinburgh, Bristol and Leicester universities
Microsoft Warns Meltdown & Spectre Chip Fixes Will Slow PCs
‘Significant’ impact on some PCs and servers if the fixes to Meltdown, Spectre are applied, warns Redmond
Meltdown & Spectre: Apple Confirms All Macs & iPhones Are Vulnerable To Chip Bug
Apple releases mitigations for Mac, iPhone and iPad and says a Safari fix is incoming as Meltdown and Spectre continue to plague technology industry
Tech Quiz: ARM Holdings
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Meltdown & Spectre: Intel Chip Exploit Also Impacts ARM, AMD Chips
‘Not just us’ says Intel, as ARM and AMD are also said to be vulnerable to one of the flaws
ARM Introduces IoT Platform Security Architecture at TechCon 2017
At the chip company’s TechCon show, Arm officials say businesses and consumers must trust their connected devices if the IoT is to scale
Windows 10 On Course To Arrive On ARM Chipset Soon
Too little, too late for Windows Phone, but Microsoft says Windows 10 is almost ready for ARM processors
Modder Makes Ultra-Thin ‘Raspberry Pi 3 Slim’ Computer
Hardware hacker NODE sawed off everything that projects up from the Raspberry Pi 3’s board to create a 1.2GHz system the thickness of a few credit cards
AES-256 Encryption Keys Cracked Wirelessly Using Inexpensive Kit
Dutch researchers have demonstrated that secret AES encryption keys can be extracted using recording equipment that costs under 200 euros
Windows 10 On Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Could Shake-Up The Intel Dominated PC World
Clever use of emulation allows Windows 10 and Win32 apps to run on ARM-based chipsets
ARM’s Latest Cortex Processors To Bring More AI To Smartphones & IoT
The Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 tout more performance and efficiency over their predecessors
ARM Debuts DynamIQ Processor Architecture WIth An Eye On AI & Machine Learning
The Cambridge tech firm is expanding the scope of its big.LITTLE design
Microsoft To Use ARM Chips For Azure Servers – Report
Another blow for Intel’s domination of the computer world as Redmond pledges to use ARM chips for Azure servers
Apple ‘Develops’ In-house Chip To Reduce Reliance On Intel
More bad news Intel? Apple reportedly working on ARM-based chip to improve Macbook battery life
Intel Shakes Up Management, Creates New Auto-Tech Team
Intel gets new head of IoT from ARM and creates a connected car division
Samsung Pushes Deeper Into IoT With Expanded ARTIK Platform
The ARTIK 0 and ARTIK 7 target both the high and low-power ends of the Internet of Things spectrum