08/10/2011
EE Times – Online
SAN FRANCISCO—Subsidiaries of ARM Holdings plc has asked a U.S. federal court to intervene in a litigation filed in April by Canadian memory IP vendor Mosaid Technologies Inc. against several ARM licensees, Mosaid said Tuesday (Aug. 9).
ARM filed a complaint against Mosaid on Aug. 5 in U.S. District Court for Northern [...]
05/17/2011
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. – ARM Holdings plc is trying to persuade Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the long-time rival to global chip leader Intel Corp., to license ARM processors and use them instead of the x86 architecture.
This makes little or no sense for AMD-at least according to one analyst. ”AMD is committed to x86; [...]
04/19/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
Smartphones and tablets will be the first devices to use ARM’s upcoming Cortex-A15 processor, and will be available starting late 2012 or early 2013, an ARM executive said this week.
ARM’s partners will initially use dual-core processors, and later on quad-core parts, in mobile devices, said James Bruce, the [...]
24/2011
Electronics Weekly
According to SonyInsider, there will soon be another sighting of that rare beast the ARM-based netbook. Sony is going to launch one.
A couple of years ago it was widely expected that ARM-based netbooks would take over most of the netbook market. Some analysts went so far as to predict a 70% market share [...]
02/24/2011
Thomson Reuters
LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Shares in British chip designer ARM Holdings (ARM.L) have soared on demand for its processors in gadgets such as Apple’s (AAPL.O) iPad and iPhone, but living up to its rich valuation could be a tall order.
ARM stock hit a 2011 high of 652 pence in mid February, multiplying [...]
19/2011
Business Insider – Online, The
Intel wants the world to know that Microsoft’s decision to port Windows to ARM processors hasn’t created a rift between the old partners — even if some individual execs are hinting that they’re frustrated with Microsoft’s slow move.
An Intel spokesperson said, “With over 30 years of compatibility, we will easily [...]
01/18/2011
EE Times Europe
LONDON – ARM and IBM have announced an extension to their existing collaboration to allow ARM produce physical and processor IP tuned to IBM’s manufacturing process down to 14-nm.
IBM manufacturing process research is also closely aligned to processes produced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and GlobalFoundries Inc. through the common platform alliance. [...]
01/14/2011
VentureBeat
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said today during an earnings call that he is skeptical that ARM chip vendors will be able to muscle in on Intel’s turf on the Windows PC.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the Consumer Electronics Show last week that a future version of Windows will run on ARM [...]
12/21/2010
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology for the first time, two people familiar with Microsoft’s plans said.
The new product will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, said the people, who [...]
12/13/2010
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
ARM Holdings Plc, the top designer of processors for smartphones, is pushing into chips for server computers and aims to start eroding Intel Corp.’s dominance in that market in 2014.
Server manufacturers are already looking at chips based on ARM’s technology, Chief Executive Officer Warren East said last week in [...]
