Brexit was partly to blame for Arm’s decision to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York rather than London.
Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser told Radio 4’s Today programme that it made sense for Arm owners SoftBank to take Arm to New York, where it aims to raise $10 billion and could be valued between $30 billion and $70 billion.
He said it would have been difficult to raise that amount of cash in Post Brexit Britain.
“Softbank really needs the money to further support the growth of Arm.”
IoT software engineering services provider Mobica was snapped up Cognizant a few weeks after Cognizant hired former Infosys veteran Ravi Kumar S as its new CEO.
Mobica’s is a Microsoft IoT edge solutions partner, is part of chipmaking vendor ARM’s partner ecosystem, and works with Apple.
The buyout will push Cognizant’s IoT-embedded software engineering capabilities and provide clients with a broader array of end-to-end support to enable digital transformation.
ARM has sued Qualcomm and the startup it acquired, Nuvia, claiming breach of license agreements and trademark infringement.
The 29-page complaint filed Wednesday in US District Court in Delaware said ARM, a subsidiary of Softbank Group Corp., seeks unspecified punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and an order prohibiting the use of Arm’s trademarked technology.
“Qualcomm and Nuvia have continued working on Nuvia’s implementation of ARM architecture in violation of Arm’s rights as the creator and licensor of its technology”, the lawsuit said.
Any chance that the UK would become technologically independent were dashed the moment it signed up to Brext, according to ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser.
ARM’s co-founder believes Britain has “no chance” of being technologically independent following Brexit.
Newport Wafer Fab has been thrust into the struggle between the West and China.
Last July the outfit hit financial difficulties and was bought by Nexperia, one of its customers. Nexperia is headquartered in the Netherlands but its ultimate owners are Chinese firm Wingtech Technology.
Suddenly the British government realised that it was not in the strategic interest that China gains prominence in the global semiconductor industry. Well we say realised it was told by America which seemed to take the problem a little more seriously.
It was only this May, close to a year after the sale and after heaving lobbying, that ministers ordered a national security review under new powers.
The national security concerns are not about highly sensitive technology being made at the site with a defence or intelligence role. Rather it is about not having to rely on chips made overseas. Suddenly making your own chips is fashionable.
The UK Prime Minister 
is apparently trying to convince UK chip maker ARM to list in London. Unless he’s fibbing.
Johnson has written to SoftBank, ARM’s owners, while ministers and executives from the London Stock Exchange are trying to persuade them to rethink its preference for listing in New York, the Financial Times said.
SoftBank wants to take British chip designer ARM public after plans to sell the company to Nvidia fell through due to “significant regulatory challenges”.
But it said it is planning on taking the company public on the NASDAQ exchange in New York instead of London.
While it is unlikely to happen, it seems that Intel is considering snapping up British chip manufacturer ARM.
Nvidia officially announced the termination of its $40 billion acquisition from owners SoftBank Group (SBG) earlier this month due to “significant regulatory challenges”.
Shortly after its collapse, ARM confirmed it was preparing for an IPO within the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
Now, Intel is weighing up its own offer for ARM. Kicking Pat Gelsinger has said Intel would be interested in participating if a consortium emerges to own the UK semiconductor company.
IT management outfit SolarWinds has bought German Access Rights Management outfit 8MAN.
Kevin Thompson, CEO of SolarWinds said that SolarWinds was doing what it has done for almost 20 years—identifying gaps in the solution set for its customers and then working to fill that gap with an “easy-to-use, affordable solution”. The addition of an ARM product will help users deal with internal issues around system and data access.
Enterprise CIOs are starting to twig that the cloud is not all it is cracked up to be and are looking at a new buzzword – the Fog – instead.
One of the problems with the cloud is that many of the services and apps, and data used in critical decision-making are better kept on premise or in smaller enterprise data centres. Cloud goes against the demand for mobility too as the data needs to be kept closer to the machine.
Now Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, Intel and ARM, as well as researchers at Princeton University, are betting that the future of enterprise computing will be a hybrid model where information, applications and services are split between the cloud and the fog. Cisco came up with the name “fog computing” you can probably tell.
Cloud based data centres are huge and are working ok for now. But when, and if the IoT appears on the scene things are going to get messy.
When everything from cars and drones to video cameras and home appliances are transmitting enormous amounts of data from trillions of sensors, network traffic will grow exponentially. Real-time services that require split-second response times or location-awareness for accurate decision-making will need to be deployed closer to the edge to be useful, something which would cause the cloud to break.
The only thing which will save the cloud really is increased technology, or coming up with a hybrid approach to data. That will enable distributed fog networks in enterprise data centres, around cities, in vehicles, in homes and neighbourhoods, and even on your person via wearable devices and sensors.
If this sounds like the old “distributed computing” over “Centralised computing” debate which happened as the Internet was starting to arrive, it pretty much is. What Cisco is suggesting is incredibly complex networks.
The proposed merger of Freescale and NXP will result in a semiconductor company that challenges the giants.
That’s according to chief analyst Dale Ford at IHS, who said the merged entity will be in the top 10 semiconductor companies in the world, outranking other giants such as Broadcom and ST Microelectronics.
He said the strength of uniting Freescale and NXP will be shown in automotive applications particularly.
NXP, formerly the semiconductor division of Dutch giant Philips, used to compete in the same market, said Ford.
But the new top 10 will look fundamentally different. By revenues, Intel will remain number one with 14.14 percent, followed by Samsung, Qualcomm, SK Hynix, US DRAM firm Micron, Texas Instruments and Toshiba.
The merged company will be second place in the micro controller market, and it will also have significant share in the digital signal processing (DSP) market, much used in consumer applications.
IHS noted in its report that Freescale is practically an exclusive source for power architecture processors – and although its share in this market is tiny compared to ARM and X86 semiconductors, it has big wins in the military aerospace market.
Intel has lifted the veil on a new Xeon D family of processors which are the company’s first ever Xeon-based System-on-Chip (SoC).
The news is bad for ARM because it is wanted to dominate the microserver market and this package is exactly what it does not want out there.
The Xeon D line is built on Intel’s 14nm process technology and combines the performance of Xeon chips with the size and power savings of a SoC.
Intel says the Xeon D delivers up to 3.4x faster performance node and up to 1.7x better performance per watt compared to the company’s Atom C2750, which is part of Intel’s second-generation 64-bit SoC family.
Xeon D is the third generation and it’s actually based on Intel’s 14nm Broadwell architecture.
This puts Intel in the running for those customers who want low-power, high density infrastructure products. In fact Intel says that it can deliver server class reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features in an ultra-dense, low-power device.
Cisco, HP, NEC, Quanta Cloud Technology, Sugon, and Supermicro have sworn their loyalty to the chip, before all their dark gods, and are committed to building microserves based on Intel’s new Xeon D options.
This means ARM has not got much time before actual products are out there.
Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel said that the growth of connected devices and demand for more digital services has created new opportunities for information and communication technology,” said.
“By bringing Intel Xeon processor performance to a low-power SoC, we’re delivering the best of both worlds and enabling our customers to deliver exciting new services.”
Intel’s kicking things off with two Xeon D processors, the D-1540 with 8 cores, 16 threads, 2GHz, 45W TDP and D-1520 with its 4 cores, 8 threads, 2.2GHz, 45W TDP. These have memory controllers capable of up to 128GB of addressable memory.
They also feature an integrated platform controller hub (PCH), integrated I/Os, and two integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
All of this is based on Intel’s Broadwell so should give a reasonable performance per watt.
AMD is pinning its hopes on ARM servers and custom designs to pull its nadgers out of the fire, sources inside the company are saying.
New CEO Lisa Su has said ARM servers will account for as much as 15 percent of the total server market in less than five years and AMD wants a slice of that.
It is a long term gamble, and one which is a move away from AMD’s traditional x86 plans.
What is also strange about the plan is that it does create rivals from companies that are also bidding to put ARM in the data centre.
There is also the problem that ARM adoption in the server space is new and lacks the software and driver maturity of x86 – something which AMD actually knows rather a lot about.
To keep the flag flying. AMD plans to increase its custom semi-design business. AMD has recently signed a number of new customers up to its “semicustom” practice, which it expects to grow into a business worth as much as $1 billion in much-needed new revenues.
A financial analyst said that an announcement made by Samsung at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona has thrown into sharp relief Intel’s inability to capture market share.
Mark Hibben, at Seeking Alpha, said that while the CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich, delivered a keynote at MWC, Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy S6 phone shows that the California company is way behind in its egregious goals.
Hibben said that Samsung is targeting Apple’s iPhone 6, “making it clear that Apple and Samsung completely dominate the mobile device world, leaving Intel with only aspirations”.
The Galaxy S6 smartphone uses a Samsung 64-bit processor, using the company’s 14 nanometre FinFET process.
He said this shows that ARM has leaped into the process lead over Intel, which only has its SoFIA on a 28 nanometre TSMC process, said Hibben. That, he thinks, makes Intel two generations behind process tech for smartphones.
He said companies like Apple and Samsung “can deploy staggering capital resources in the pursuit of non Intel Inside”.
Intel made a $4.2 billion loss in its mobile group in 2014.
British chip company ARM said it is offering £10,000 in prizes in a contest to create smart devices based on its Cortex-M4 microprocessor.
The competition runs from March to June this year with the goal to create devices in the home automation, measurement, the internet of things or system control.
Registration for the contest starts today and finishes on March 31, 2015. Competitors will receive software development tools, a debug unit, hardware containing the M4 chip and peripheral components.
Competitors can choose from platforms provided by Freescale, Infineon, NXP or ST Microelectronics.
Final prototype designs need to be submitted by the 30th of June 2015, with winners announced in October 2015. There will be five prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000.
Reinhard Kell, director of micro controller tools at ARM said: “New technology invention was previously the domain of those with advanced processor knowledge and access to funding. That has changed now.”
Competitors get a complementary licence for the ARM Keil Microcontroller Development Kit, professional edition.
You can register for the competition by clicking here.
It seems that the British chip designer ARM has done a lot better than the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street have predicted.
ARM posted a 25 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit, ahead of expectations, helped by a strong year end in companies licensing its technology and growing royalty revenues.
The Tame Apple press claims that the ARM success has all been down to Apple’s iPhone 6, although ARM powers most of the world’s smartphones.
ARM reported pre-tax profit of 118.9 million pounds on revenue of 225.9 million pounds, up 19 percent.
Licensing revenue was up 27 per cent on the year mainly based on 53 licences signed for processors.
“We anticipate that total group dollar revenues for Q1 will be up about 10 percent year on year, based on strengthening royalty revenue growth, and our expectation of the profile of license revenue through the year,” the company said.
Analysts were predicting pre-tax profit of £113 million, according to a consensus compiled by Thomson Reuters.
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