March 29, 2024

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Widespread Windows and Linux Vulnerabilities Could Let Attackers Sneak in Malicious Code Before Boot

Lenovo, AMI and Insyde have released patches for LogoFAIL, an image library poisoning attack.
Researchers at firmware supply chain security platform company Binarly discovered a set of security vulnerabilities that open almost all Windows and Linux com…

This veteran VC doesn’t think ARM’s IPO will have the impact that everyone is hoping it will

The startup industry has been whistling a happy tune ever since the British chip designer ARM filed paperwork with the SEC late last month for an initial public offering. The growing expectation is that the hotly anticipated offering will force open th…

Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest

Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker symbol “ARM,” five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators. The outfit didn’t provide a projected share price in its F-1 paperwork. SoftBank recently bought a 24.99% stake in the […]

Arm launches new chips for faster smartphone performance during Computex

Just ahead of CEO Rene Haas’ keynote at Computex in Taipei today, Arm launched two new products designed to increase smartphone performance. The first is the Arm Cortex-X4, its fourth-generation Cortex-X core. Arm said the Cortex-X4 is the fastest CPU it is made so far and will bring 15% more performance than its predecessor, the […]

Arm launches new chips for faster smartphone performance during Computex by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores

Over the course of the last few years, thanks to its Altra and Altra Max processors, Ampere made a name for itself as one of the premier suppliers of Arm-based chips to large cloud services providers. These chips were also based on Arm-designed cores, though. Today, the company is officially launching the Ampere One family, […]

Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows

Today at Build 2022, Microsoft unveiled Project Volterra, a device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform that’s designed to let developers explore “AI scenarios” via Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (SNPE) for Windows toolkit. The hardware arrives alongside support in Windows for neural processing units (NPUs), or dedicated chips tailored for AI- and machine learning-specific […]