Private equity firms get a bad rap — and not without reason. In the prototypical example, a bunch of men in suits (and these folks always seem to be men for some reason) swoop in from Manhattan with
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while
Last week, SoftBank Group Corp. — Masayoshi Son’s holding company for his rapidly expanding collection of businesses — reported its fiscal year financials. There were some major headlines that c
For the longest time, Arm was basically synonymous with chip designs for smartphones and very low-end devices. But more recently, the company launched solutions for laptops, cars, high-powered IoT de
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Arm, the company that designs the chips that power virtually every smartphone and IoT device, published its roadmap for the next two years today. That’s the first time Arm has done so and the re
Arm, the semiconductor firm you probably still remember as ARM, today announced that it has acquired Treasure Data, a data management platform for large enterprise customers. The companies didn’
Nvidia and Arm today announced a partnership that’s aimed at making it easier for chip makers to incorporate deep learning capabilities into next-generation consumer gadgets, mobile devices and
When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since it started designing and building its own chips from the grou
Japanese telecoms firm SoftBank recently acquired British microchip manufacturer ARM Holdings. ARM’s shareholders approved the $32 billion deal at the end of August, and the company was delisted fro
One of the biggest tech deals this year — and the biggest ever in the UK — has now closed. Today, Softbank announced that it has completed its acquisition of ARM Holdings, the semiconducto
There's a new corporate venture arm in town.
Roughly six months after Hewlett-Packard finalized its division into two companies -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which focuses on servers, storage, net
As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves -- the latest being <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnet.com/windows-arm-tablet-rumors-heat-up-surface-2-nokia
Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut <a target="_blank" href="http://www.arm.com">ARM Holdings</a> through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with compa
ARM Holdings -- supplier of microchips for Apple's iPhone and iPad products, Samsung's Galaxy line and soon technology for Microsoft's Windows 8 devices -- continues to report strong results while rid
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-174880" title="a" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/a2.jpg" alt="" />The following is very much a rumor, but if true, it would be absolutel