Qualcomm buys silicon design firm Nuvia

Stefan Mileschin · 18th March 2021, 10:56

Tame Apple Press wets itself

Qualcomm has wrapped up its $1.4 billion acquisition of silicon design firm Nuvia, and the Tame Apple press is terrified.

After trumpeting Apple’s move into chip making, the Tame Apple Press is now worried that this acquisition should allow Qualcomm to compete with Apple's silicon division and focus on pushing bigger, better ARM chips into the laptop market.

Apparently, the Tame Apple Press has not noticed that Qualcomm has been making Arm-based chips for rather a long time.

“Don't feel bad if you've never heard of Nuvia; the company was only founded in 2019 and has never made a product,” one Tame Apple Press writer reassured Apple fanboys everywhere.

In fact Nuvia makes server chips something that Apple will never do and probably couldn’t. But what appears to have gotten the Tame Apple Press’s goat is that Nuvia was founded by three high-ranking engineers from Apple's silicon division. Nuvia's CEO, Gerard Williams, formerly Apple's chief CPU architect for a decade, is now Qualcomm's SVP of engineering.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52537-qual...ign-firm-nuvia

18th March 2021, 10:56	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	Qualcomm buys silicon design firm Nuvia Tame Apple Press wets itself Qualcomm has wrapped up its $1.4 billion acquisition of silicon design firm Nuvia, and the Tame Apple press is terrified. After trumpeting Apple’s move into chip making, the Tame Apple Press is now worried that this acquisition should allow Qualcomm to compete with Apple's silicon division and focus on pushing bigger, better ARM chips into the laptop market. Apparently, the Tame Apple Press has not noticed that Qualcomm has been making Arm-based chips for rather a long time. “Don't feel bad if you've never heard of Nuvia; the company was only founded in 2019 and has never made a product,” one Tame Apple Press writer reassured Apple fanboys everywhere. In fact Nuvia makes server chips something that Apple will never do and probably couldn’t. But what appears to have gotten the Tame Apple Press’s goat is that Nuvia was founded by three high-ranking engineers from Apple's silicon division. Nuvia's CEO, Gerard Williams, formerly Apple's chief CPU architect for a decade, is now Qualcomm's SVP of engineering. https://fudzilla.com/news/52537-qual...ign-firm-nuvia

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