Snapdragon X Elite laptops from Dell are launching soon, leaked docs claim nearly double the battery life
The Arm-based chips could be costing Dell half as much as Intel's
Apple M4 arrives less than a year after M3 as the AI PC battle looms
Something to look forward to: With its newly announced iPads, Apple is fast-tracking the introduction of its M4 processors to compete in the upcoming AI PC race. Although the Cupertino giant claims it has the most powerful NPU on the market, Qualcomm might disagree. Meanwhile, Intel is preparing significant AI performance upgrades over the next year, and Nvidia claims that its GPUs reign supreme in generative AI.
AI data centers could soon become a scourge for the energy industry
WTF?! Arm's CEO has sounded a warning bell about the energy requirements needed to advance AI algorithms. He cautions that in a few years, "AI data centers" could require so much electricity that it could jeopardize the US power grid.
Google enters custom CPU arena with Arm-based Axion processor
Greater compatibility and power efficiency gains for customer workloads
Snapdragon X Elite is faster than Intel and AMD flagship CPUs in Geekbench
Laptops powered by the Snapdragon X Elite are coming later this year
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is capable of running Baldur's Gate 3 at 30 frames per second
Is 30 FPS a "perfectly playable" rate for the PC gaming crowd?
Software-defined vehicles get a push from Arm and Cadence
Arm is creating a "digital twin" of its automotive chip architectures for software development purposes
Samsung and Arm are collaborating on next-gen Cortex-X CPU cores
The partnership will see the two companies work together to optimize Cortex-X cores for gate-all-around transistors
How Arm results set the world on fire
The company's valuation is pushing into "Priced for Perfection" territory
Microsoft's next-gen Surface laptops expected to showcase "true AI" features
The devices could be released during 2024
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is faster than Apple's M3
The yet-to-materialize SoC is beating the competition by a wide margin
Arm and RISC-V: Can there only be one?
Most see these two as a winner-take-all, zero-sum contest
Arm CEO says his fear that humans could lose control over AI keeps him up at night
"You can't really run AI without Arm."
Researchers say future Intel, AMD and Arm chips at risk from SLAM attack
Chip makers believe that their current systems are adept enough to protect users
Arm Cortex-M52 chip brings AI acceleration to low-power IoT devices
A cost-efficient solution to manage AI capabilities in distributed appliances
Microsoft is now making its own Arm processors for AI and cloud workloads
Reducing reliance on Nvidia and other outside processors for key growth driver
Arm acquires minority stake in single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi
Arm gets a slice of the Pi
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite outperforms AMD's Radeon 780M in 3DMark
Clearly beating mobile x86 processors in performance and efficiency, but Apple remains ahead
PC CPUs are getting more interesting, and competition is coming
Why it matters: Five years ago there were only two companies that made CPUs, today there are a dozen. Most of the new entrants went after the big, profitable data center market, but now competitors are coming for PCs. Nvidia and AMD are reportedly preparing Arm-based CPUs for PCs. With Microsoft opening up the market for Arm laptop CPUs, this spells bad news for Qualcomm today, and potentially bad news for Intel over the very long term.
Intel boss Pat Gelsinger calls Arm's PC threat "insignificant"
But he's happy for Intel Foundry Services to manufacture Arm chips
Socionext is working with TSMC on a 2nm Arm chiplet for data centers
A power-optimized Arm CPU for HPC and hyperscale applications
Qualcomm's next-gen Arm SoC runs Windows, can beat Intel and Apple in some applications and efficiency
Something to look forward to: After years of monotony and relative stasis in the PC industry, things are starting to change. And man, it's getting exciting again! Earlier this year, AMD launched the Ryzen 7040, the first PC SoC with a built-in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) – otherwise known as an AI accelerator. Then a few weeks ago, Intel debuted its Core Ultra chip featuring its own AI accelerator. Now Qualcomm is putting an exclamation point on the AI PC trend with the launch of its Snapdragon X Elite SoC for PCs.
Massive leak reveals full specs of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC for laptops
The Snapdragon X Elite could power high-end laptops from Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and others
Nvidia and AMD are planning Arm-based CPUs for consumer PCs
Intel's shares tumbled following the news