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ARM's smartphone muscle powers jump in profits

...Cambridge chip designer ARM has seen pre-tax profits jump 45 percent, driven by... Read more

31 January, 2012 by David Meyer

ARM releases Android development tools

Chip designer ARM has released the fifth version of its development studio. The... Read more

28 November, 2011

Calxeda touts 480-core ARM server

Start-up chip designer Calxeda is developing a low-powered ARM server that can consume... Read more

14 March, 2011

Tilera's 100-core processors take on Sandy Bridge

Chip designer Tilera has unveiled a low-power processor that can scale between... Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon

...Chip designer Cambridge Silicon Radio has said it is talking to all the... Read more

25 May, 2012 by Ben Woods

ARM joint venture aims to secure phones and tablets

...to secure ARM-based smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and games consoles, the chip designer said on Tuesday. "The integration of the hardware, software and services... Read more

3 April, 2012 by David Meyer

Calxeda and HP unleash ARM server tech

...ARM-backed start-up Calxeda has continued the Cambridge chip designer's push into servers with the introduction of its EnergyCore system... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Qualcomm opens R&D centre in Singapore

...Chip designer and supplier Qualcomm has established an integrated circuit design and engineering... Read more

29 March, 2012 by Ryan Huang

Tilera targets simple cloud tasks with 36-core processors

...major networking, defence and web companies for evaluation testing, the start-up chip designer said. "Tilera has outperformed our early expectations given its proprietary instruction... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Poor Nokia sales drag down ST-Ericsson earnings

...Phone handsets such as the Lumia 800, above, has affected revenues at chip designer ST-Ericsson. Image credit: Ben Woods In its fourth-quarter earnings... Read more

24 January, 2012 by David Meyer

IBM foretells mind-reading machines

By 2016 people will have access to devices that can be operated by brain power alone, and biometric identification will replace written passwords, IBM has predicted Read more

20 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Hermann Hauser backs computer museum for Cambridge

...number of individuals and several high profile Cambridge tech businesses, including super-chip designer ARM Holdings, Microsoft Research and award winning Red Gate Software." Previously... Read more

12 December, 2011

Knights Corner edges into supercomputing arena

...will launch into a market already led by another vendor, start-up chip designer Tilera. Tilera has produced a range of Risc-based processors with... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

ARM preps server push with 64-bit architecture

...computing to new applications such as high-end servers and computing," the chip designer said.ARM customers such as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and server maker... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

ARM's profit rises on smartphone demand

...profits up almost 50 percent on a year ago. The Cambridge-based chip designer reported revenues of £120.2m and pre-tax profits of... Read more

25 October, 2011

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