
South Korean boffins work on HPC chip
Might cause some serious problems for the big names
South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Institute (ETRI) has teamed up with ARM to design a CPU that’s tailored for supercomputing.

ARM spins off IoT arm
Pelion ready for business
Pelion, the IoT connected device service provider, launched as an independent company unveiled its new brand and enhanced offering.

ARM based Fugaku tops world super computer list
But the technology is slowing down
Japan's Fugaku ARM-based supercomputer has been named the world's most powerful in the latest Top500 list, setting a world record of 442 petaflops.

AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx
$35 billion biggest to date
News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.

Silicon Motion launches PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD controllers
Up to 7,400/6,800 MB/s of sequential performance
Silicon Motion announced three new PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD controllers, including the high-end 12nm SM2264 controller, capable of hitting 7.400MB/s and 6.800MB/s sequential read and write performance.

Chinese firms object to Nvidia's ARM deal
Worried they will lose access to tech
Huawei and several other Chinese tech firms have raised concerns to local regulators about chipmaker Nvidia deal to buy UK-based chip designer ARM.

AMD will most likely buy Xilinx
Data center strategy
It is impossible to get a comment from either AMD or Xilinx on this matter, but as far as we could ask around, AMD is going to attempt to buy Xilinx. The move will help the company’s data center strategy, and it is carefully targeted.

ARM Cortex-A will be totally 64 bit by 2023
If the world is still there
Mobile chipmaker ARM has decided that its high-end smartphone and laptop-grade Cortex-A processor cores will be 64-bit only by 2023.

Intel, Qualcomm, Tesla against ARM–Nvidia merger
Exclusive: Few others, Apple maybe
Multiple well-informed sources have informed us that there is a big uprising in Silicon Valley against the proposed Nvidia–ARM acquisition. We have spoken with people from multiple technology companies, and everyone - outside ARM and Nvidia - believes that this is bad for the industry.

Microsoft working on ARM based 64-bit apps
Making sure that it can do 64 bit
Microsoft is officially revealing it’s working on x64 app emulation support for Windows on ARM.