Qualcomm is jumping back into the server CPU market with Nuvia acquisition:
Qualcomm is apparently plotting a return to the server chip market. The company is overhauling its CPU offerings after acquiring the upstart chip design company Nuvia in 2021. Nuvia was founded by three high-ranking engineers from Apple's chip division, with the original goal of designing ARM server chips (though it never launched a product). After Qualcomm bought the company, it seemingly pivoted its new chip division from server chips to laptops and phones. Now, according to a new report from Bloomberg, Nuvia's original goal of building server chips will be allowed to continue.
The report says Qualcomm is "seeking customers for a product stemming from last year's purchase of chip startup Nuvia" with Amazon Web Services as one of the first companies that "agreed to take a look at Qualcomm's offerings." Apple has proven to the world that ARM chips can scale up, and on laptops, they've proven to be more efficient than the x86 chips from Intel and AMD. Companies like Amazon have even started making their in-house server chips based on ARM's licensable CPU designs.
There's no timeline for when Qualcomm's server chips will be available, but Qualcomm's current schedule has Nuvia technology showing up in laptops in "late 2023."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2022, @03:06PM (5 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 23 2022, @03:32PM
I think it's the McDonald's effect. They shifting to progressively cheaper and fewer ingredients and processes in order to reduce costs while holding the price of their products constant. For McDonald's, that meant things like louder lobby music, fewer pickles on the hamburger, or foamier soft serve ice cream. With Google, it means progressively worse search results.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Tuesday August 23 2022, @04:44PM (1 child)
Outlook's search has been horrible. It's not necessarily hard to be better. It's definitely hard to pry market share away, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2022, @11:21AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 23 2022, @09:11PM
I used Eudora for years, even while working at Qualcomm while QC was transitioning to Outlook. I had a sad when Qualcomm quit supporting it.
Now I use Thunderbird configured to access gmail via, I think IMAP? It downloads my mail on 2 accounts (one a "join our rewards program", which lets 5-10 messages through daily that I seldom look at, and the other gets 2-3 messages through weekly that I always look at).
Kids, have 2 email accounts. 1 for general bullshit, 1 for important stuff. And guard the important one fiercely.
I just passed a drug test. My dealer has some explaining to do.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2022, @10:16PM
Qualcom donated the Eudora sources to the Computer History Museum.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday August 23 2022, @03:48PM (1 child)
How important is a CPU without an accompanying GPU? I like the ideals behind RISC-V. Yet without graphics, a chip is really fit only for use in servers, which is, of course, what the article is about. I hope Qualcomm is giving the desktop thought.
Lurking in the wings is neural net computing. How that's going to impact computing is really hard to guess.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 23 2022, @04:06PM
You don't even need to read the article, the summary itself says they're aiming for the server market. Servers don't need, nor want, power hungry heat generating GPUs.
Wouldn't surprise me to see them putting some machine learning hardware into some versions.
I just passed a drug test. My dealer has some explaining to do.