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According to fresh SEC filings from Arm, the chip IP designer has secured a slew of industry investors ahead of the company's impending IPO. Aiming for a strong start to what Reuters reports is projected to be a $52 billion IPO valuation, Arm has been seeking out major industry customers as cornerstone investors, successfully lining up nearly a dozen companies from their efforts. Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million of Arm's American Depositary Shares (ADS), SoftBank, the owner of Arm, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the exact number of shares to be purchased has not been disclosed – and may...
ARM's Cortex A7: Bringing Cheaper Dual-Core & More Power Efficient High-End Devices
How do you keep increasing performance in a power constrained environment like a smartphone without decreasing battery life? You can design more efficient microarchitectures, but at some point you’ll...
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/19/2011
ARM & Cadence Tape Out 20nm Cortex A15 Test Chip
Although we won't see the first ARM Cortex A15 based designs until the second half of next year, and even then only on 28/32nm processes, ARM and design tools...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2011
Qualcomm's New Snapdragon S4: MSM8960 & Krait Architecture Explored
Let's recap the current smartphone/tablet SoC landscape. Everything shipping today is built on a 4x-nm process, built either at Global Foundries, Samsung, TSMC or UMC. Next year we'll see...
108 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/7/2011
ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now
Earlier this morning we published our long awaited review of the Samsung Galaxy S 2. In it we dedicated a few pages to investigating Samsung's own Exynos 4210 SoC...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2011
Windows 8 on AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm & TI: Let the Race Begin
I'm in the audience of Microsoft's Partner Preview for Computex 2011, basically an event to give a sneak peak of the future of Windows to press and MS partners...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Samsung's Galaxy S II Preliminary Performance: Mali-400MP Benchmarked
There's a lot of speculation about the SoC used in Samsung's Galaxy S II, thankfully through process of elimination and some snooping around we've been able to figure it...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 2/14/2011
TI Reveals OMAP 5: The First ARM Cortex A15 SoC
TI sure does have impeccable timing. Not 12 hours after we published our LG Optimus 2X and NVIDIA Tegra 2 review, complete with a discussion of the 2011 SoC...
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011
Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86
NVIDIA and Intel just released their respective PR announcements a bit ago, but after much rumor mongering it’s official: Intel and NVIDIA are the latest duo to bury the...
30 by Ryan Smith on 1/10/2011
NVIDIA's Project Denver: NV Designed, High Performance ARM Core: Updated!
NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Project Denver - its first CPU architecture design ever, based on ARM's ISA. This is a custom design done by NVIDIA in conjunction...
49 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011
TI Reveals OMAP4440 Specs: Dual 1.5GHz Cortex A9, 25% Faster GPU, HDMI 1.4 3D, 1080p60
Next year is looking to be a very important year for smartphone and tablet performance. Just as we saw widespread migration to the ARM Cortex A8 and Qualcomm Scorpion...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010
ARM Aims at Intel, Cortex A15 Headed for Smartphones, Notebooks and Servers
Last month TI announced it was the first to license ARM’s next-generation Eagle core. Today, ARM is announcing the official name of that core: it’s the ARM Cortex A15. Architectural...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2010
Going Out of Order: Samsung Announces Orion Cortex A9 SoC
Last night LG announced that it would be using NVIDIA's Tegra 2 in its Optimus Series smartphones starting in Q4 2010. The most exciting part of Tegra 2 is...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2010TI First to License ARM's Next-Generation Eagle Core
In our smartphone and tablet reviews we make sure to spend a good amount of time talking about the silicon powering these devices. There’s no reason that handset and...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/9/2010
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