The Hot Take: That seems skewed against the victor.
Qualcomm has won two claims against Arm in a Delaware court, collecting a princely $2 while both companies proclaimed victory.
According to Notebookcheck the jury found Arm breached its licensing agreement and intentionally interfered with Qualcommâs business relationship with Meta Platforms. After a five-day trial, it awarded nominal damages of $1 for each successful claim.
The verdict gave both corporate publicity departments enough ammunition to declare success, although neither company has finished fighting. Arm shares fell about a perâŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 21, 2026 | Apple, ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: Well now....
A supposed Geekbench result for an unreleased M6 Pro chip surfaced this week, but it is likely fake.
Geekbench creator John Poole informed MacRumors that he uncovered "internal inconsistencies" that lead him to believe that the M6 Pro result might not be legitimate. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously reported that Apple plans to skip M6 Pro and M6 Max chips entirely.This article, "M6 Pro Chip Result on Geekbench is Likely Fake" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 18, 2026 | ARM, CPU, Hardware
The Hot Take: ARM seems to be coming along as a server chip. This one is on the Top500 list too.
Fujitsu will start selling its Monaka processors, and servers packing them, in November. The Japanese giant started talking about Monaka way back in 2023, when it teased the processor as being derived from the silicon it designed for the Fugaku supercomputer, but adapted for datacenter use. Fugaku was the worldâs most powerful supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, and remains in ninth place on the Top 500 list six years after its debut. Who wouldnât want the tech that powered that behemoth in their datacenter? Yet as The Register reported earlierâŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 3, 2026 | ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: Interesting take from a new ARM competitor & licensee.
Arm servers wonât have significant market share in the enterprise for at least three to five years, according to Ram Velaga, the recently installed leader of Broadcomâs software business. Thatâs unwelcome news for hardware vendors contemplating Arm servers, because buyers will be less interested in the devices if they canât manage them with the tools they already use. VMware remains the most commonly deployed enterprise server virtualization supplier, so its users wonât be able to embrace Arm servers anytime soon without Arm boxes becoming aâŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 2, 2026 | ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: Was wondering when something like this would happen, just took the CEO being greedy.
British semiconductor and software design company Arm is asking shareholders to approve a massive performance-based pay package for CEO Rene Haas worth up to $800 million if the company reaches a $2 trillion valuation, a move that has drawn pushback from proxy advisors ahead of a September 9th vote. According to an August 31 report by the Telegraph, the company is facing a potential shareholder revolt as proxy advisory firms such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis urged investors to vote against the compensation plan,âŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | August 25, 2026 | ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: This is RISC with RISC, I'm wondering if we'll get a CISC with RISK chip hybrid from Intel or AMD.
IBM's next-generation chip will combine dual ISA within the core, enabling the execution of Z and Arm software simultaneously. IBM Is Sending The World's First Dual-ISA Processor Core For Tape-Out Soon IBM's Christian Jacobi (IBM Fellow & CTO, IBM Systems Development) presented the Hot Chips 2026 talk in which he announced the first Dual-ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) Core for IBM Z and LinuxOne generation. The dual architecture allows IBM to execute both Z- and Arm-based software. IBM states that this isn't putting two different coreâŚ
Proxmox Server Solutions, the company behind the open source Proxmox virtualization stack, has announced a port of its flagship Virtual Environment to the Arm CPU architecture â and a collaboration with Nvidia and Supermicro that made it happen. The outfitâs announcement states that it can now run on 64-bit ARM (arm64/aarch64), but the only fully supported platforms are Nvidiaâs Grace Hopper and Vera. Proxmox will also provide âbest-effort supportâ for other UEFI-based ARMv9-A or newer hardware, and says ARMv8-A âgenerally works as wellâ. IfâŚ
The Hot Take: This is the biggest limitation to ARM SoC's as their GPU's are mid-range. So acceptance from gamers will require ability to get high end GPU for performance.
The Snapdragon X2 Elite might have doubled down on compute performance, but a multitude of tests show that its GPU continues to be one of the weakest links of the SoC. Fortunately, a user shows that the RTX Spark driver has introduced unofficial eGPU support through a USB4 connection, allowing you to experience competitive shooters like Overwatch at upwards of 200FPS. Redditor shares âsimple to followâ instructions on how to bring eGPU support to Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops Notebooks like the ASUS Zenbook A16 offer a solid configuration toâŚ
The Hot Take: Is ARM going to shine or show it's mid-range performance?
The NVIDIA N1X is surely powerful enough for the Windows-on-Arm market, but the current prototype software prevents it from reaching its full potential. User Puts Microsoft's Unreleased NVIDIA N1X-Equipped Surface Laptop Ultra To Test; Discovers Chip Being Held Back by Unfinished Drivers The NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops will debut in the coming weeks, and if you were wondering about their performance numbers, here is an early sneak peek by a TechPowerUp user, who got his hands on an early prototype from Microsoft. The user "Fouquin" says he foundâŚ
The Hot Take: Still not buying the ARM SoC's are better than discrete system CPUs. We'll have to see how Intel/AMD ACE instructions far against this.
NVIDIA has started using clusters of its own Vera processors to develop future CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators. The company says initial electronic design automation testing shows performance improvements of up to 1.