systems Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
HPC Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn’t broken away from the world
SYSTEMS Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market
Systems Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
PAAS AND IAAS Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths
Systems Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now
Systems Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses
Virtualization Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land
Personal Tech Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part
Virtualization VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview Supports Nvidia Grace and Ampere processors
Systems Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it Cores it's got what agents crave
Systems AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles
Systems Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time
AI + ML Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer AI infrastructure is a systems problem. The CPU is at its center
Personal Tech Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11 An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows
AI + ML BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants
PaaS + IaaS Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week
The Future of the Datacenter Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel
Supercomputing Month HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show Arm and RISC-V would like a word
Personal Tech Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive
Systems Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch How Arm is redefining cloud performance — and how developers are already building on it
Personal Tech Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans
Systems Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it’s time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.
AI + ML Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners
Offbeat This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite Ólafur Waage has an unusual take on "will it run Doom?"
Systems Cloud's new performance leader: Arm beats x86 AWS's Arm Neoverse-based Graviton4 chips set a new bar, beating AMD and Intel in performance and price-performance Signal65 benchmarks
PaaS + IaaS Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue
Systems Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia’s Grace CPUs No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet
AI + ML DGX Spark, Nvidia’s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds This relatively affordable AI workstation isn’t about going fast; it’s about doing everything well enough
Systems Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal
Systems X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5
AI + ML Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app
Systems Arm wrestles away 25% share of server market thanks to Nvidia's home-grown CPUs Still far short of the 50% market share Arm infra chief was hoping for
Systems Arm bets on CPU-based AI with Lumex chips for smartphones Four-tier core design debuts amid NPU debate
VMware Explore VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps Because AI, like everything else this year
HPC Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more
Systems Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon
Systems Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today
Cloud Infrastructure Month $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year
Systems Arm plots move up the stack with push into end-to-end silicon Brit chip biz sees demand surge for turnkey compute subsystems, chiplets, and complete SoC designs
Systems Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal
Systems Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange
Security Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO
Public Sector China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto
Systems Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26 No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line
Systems 808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 'We thought it was a really obvious way to build a processor and everybody would be doing it'
Systems Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores
Systems Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!
Systems Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs
OSes RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind
On-Prem SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market
Security India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more
Systems Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing
Networks Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you... Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference
OSes After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won
CxO Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic
On-Prem Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss
Systems Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2
AI + ML Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu
Legal Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round
Legal Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday
Systems Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86's PC dominance Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in
OSes Microsoft finally releases a direct-download Windows 11 on Arm ISO Good news for supporting Windows on Arm devices and adding new ones
Personal Tech Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software Until compatibility issues are properly addressed, it'll never stand up to x86
Systems AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows Arm-powered PCs are still nowhere
Systems Arm's royalty revenues boom, execs talk up hopes for AI bonanza Q2 climbs 23% on Armv9 adoption, but licensing dips
Systems Arm to Qualcomm: See you in court? Oh yes, please Doesn't quite confirm eight-week license cancellation deadline, but does strap on the gloves
Legal Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses Qualcomm brands ploy as 'unfounded' cash grab
Systems As Arm rivals cook up custom silicon, Mediatek sticks to tried-and-true Cortex recipe Exec Chris Bergey tells us what the chip designer is doing to stay competitive
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs For general-purpose and memory-optimized workloads
Systems Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?
Offbeat Intel, already adrift, now Armless too Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Systems Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello
Systems Arm's lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI
OSes Linux kernel 6.10 arrives with punched-up hardware support Plus: Broader Rust abilities, better sandboxing, and more
Personal Tech Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems
OSes Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop
Research CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech ... but where's Arm? Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds
Research Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time 'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile
Personal Tech Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years That's probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts
Systems Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market
Personal Tech Qualcomm wants to target all ‘all form factors’ with SoCs that power Copilot+ PCs As Arm CEO declares his architecture is now the de facto Windows standard
AI + ML Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps? And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
AI + ML Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs
Systems Nvidia said to be prepping AI PC chip with Arm and Blackwell cores Rivalry in Windows on Arm space would intensify once GPU giant enters the fray
Systems Arm servers are on Nutanix's long-range radar, not yet its to-do list CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it'll be game on ... perhaps for AI
Personal Tech Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch
Applications Huawei replaces ERP with homebrew effort, claims it’s perfect and shows company will thrive despite sanctions
