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Comment · 7 months ago
The fact this person could not get an attorney to represent them says a lot.
Comment · 10 months ago
What are you talking about Qualcomm is shipping cores from the Nuvia team they acquired for 2 years now.
Comment · 10 months ago
Now they're getting counter sued by Qualcomm because it turns out they allegedly violated their own TLA (license to get off the shelf cores) and their ALA (architecture license).

Qualcomm is claiming that Arm is refusing to license the v10 architecture to them and refused to license some other TLA cores requiring them to get the Nuvia Custom CPU team to build cores for those products instead.

This explains their expansion into Risc-V it's a hedge against Arm interfering with QC's business.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is hacker news take it to reddit.
Comment · 1 year ago
SEAR and the Apple team does an excellent job of security on iOS, and should be commended greatly on that.

Not only are they willing to develop hardware features and plumb that throughout the entire stack, they're willing to look at ITW exploits and work on ways to mitigate that. PPL was super interesting, they decided it wasn't 100% effective so they ditched it and came up with other thigs.

Apple's vertical makes it 'easy' to do this compared to Android where they have to convince the CPU guys at QC or Mediatek to build a feature, convince the linux kernel to take it, get it in AOSP, get it in upstream LLVM, etc etc.

Pointer authentication codes (PAC) is a good example, Apple said f-it we'll do it ourselves. They maintained a downstream fork of LLVM, and built full support, leveraged in the wild bypasses and fixed those up.

Comment · 1 year ago
Quoting Arm stock prices is hilarious considering that there is only 10% float available to be traded and 95% of that 10% is owned by institutions already. That stock is so heavily manipulated so the big boys can make insane profits on options.

On the other topic

>>Outside of Snapdragon its basically 5G Telecoms atm

>seems to be the only thing going for it.

Did you guys forget the $4B a year in auto rev that they generate, they essentially captured the entire auto market from Nvidia and NXP.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is the exact reason why they bought Arduino... So now startups have a way to buy say 1,000 devices for prototyping. Qualcomm gets used to supporting smaller developers/startups/tinkerers and will hopefully push different types of chips into the Arduino product lines.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I wish folks would test these against current gen Qualcomm modems. We're comparing a brand new modem to a 2 1/2 year old Modem. Android uses x80 and Qualcomm just released x85. So a fair comparison would be C1 vs x80.

I understand that is what the iPhone 16 uses, but that's an Apple problem they purposefully took an older generation modem from Qualcomm for their 16 series. Knowing Apple's modus operandi they probably decided to use the x71 so when they released C1 it appeared better than it really is. They did this during the Intel Modem days when they shipped that.

None the less it will be interesting to see how this modem develops further and what products it ends up in.

Comment · 1 year ago
Qualcomm has fixed all but one issue.
Comment · 2 years ago
Remember the x-elite is an SoC. What is being discussed is solely the CPU cores not any of the SoC-- which includes the q6 processor and thus hexagon.
Comment · 2 years ago
It was also further delayed until December of 2024 because during Depositions Qualcomm learned that ARM didn't destroy nuvia designs like they were required to when they terminated the ALA.

So ARM is suing Qualcomm stating that the IP rights were non-assignable per the ALA, then Qualcomm finds out that ARM also did not hold up its side of the ALA termination agreement and is using Nuvia IP in their current gen designs.

Comment · 3 years ago
The chip already has upstream linux support, the benchmarks they showed in their presentation was on 6.5
Comment · 3 years ago
This is such a bad take. Cartels have small arms the US military has drones, satellites, the NSA. A war against the cartel would be much like our participation in Syria.

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