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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

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ARM has taped out a 10nm chip [anandtech.com] using TSMC's 10nm FinFet process:

Today in collaboration with TSMC, ARM's physical IP division is announcing the tapeout of a 10nm test chip demonstrating the company's readiness for the new manufacturing process. The new test chip is particularly interesting as it contains ARM's yet-to-be-announced "Artemis" CPU core. ARM discloses that tapeout actually took place back in December 2015 and is expecting silicon to come back from the foundry in the following weeks.

The 10nm chips should be able to reach +11-12% more performance or a 30% reduction in power consumption, compared to 16nm.

ARM has also announced that it is acquiring Apical [tomshardware.com], an image processing company, for $350 million:

Prior to the acquisition, Apical had three main product lines, known as "Spirit," "Assertive Display" and "Assertive Camera". The most important of these products is Spirit, which is a processing element designed to convert raw video data into a machine-readable model. This can help with researching and understanding the movements in a scene.

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