Rene Haas, chief executive of Arm Holdings, told the BBC that AI will eventually cure cancer by modelling complex cellular and DNA processes beyond current human or computing capability, though he said this progress is being constrained by a shortage of chips needed to build data centres. He also predicted humanoid robots would become widespread within five years, while expressing doubt that chip manufacturing could realistically be built up in the UK.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-07
Arm has unveiled its Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor, the result of five years of work to build AI-based gaming acceleration into mobile GPUs. It debuts today inside Xiaomi's custom Xring O3 chip in the Xiaomi 18 Fold, launching in China, with Arm executives saying the chip will reach other phones, tablets and possibly Chromebook-style devices next year.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-07
At IFA Berlin, iRobot demonstrated a prototype called the Roomba Duo, a wet-cleaning robot mothership that carries a smaller Roomba vacuum and lowers it onto the floor using a mechanical arm. In the demo, the main unit cleaned a spaghetti spill with steam and suction, then deployed the smaller robot to reach narrow spaces and corners it couldn't access. iRobot's chief engineer Adam Pope said the device is currently just a concept exploring ways to combine heavy-duty wet cleaning with nimble vacuuming.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-04
A die shot shared by SemiAnalysis reveals detailed specifications of Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2700 chipset, expected to power some Galaxy S27 models alongside Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. The image shows a ten-core CPU with two differently clocked C2 Ultra performance cores and eight C2 Pro cores, paired with a substantial cache setup, an Xclipse 970 GPU, and a large NPU block.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-04
At IFA, Lenovo detailed two new laptops built around NVIDIA's RTX Spark, an ARM-based chip combining a Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU. The Yoga Pro 9n is a 15.3-inch machine with up to 128GB unified memory, 4TB storage and a 2.5K OLED display, while the Yoga 9n 2-in-1 is a 16-inch convertible with up to 64GB memory and a touchscreen OLED panel. Lenovo did not disclose pricing or release dates for either device.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia showed the first working laptop built on its RTX Spark superchip, the Lenovo Yoga 9n, a 16-inch 2-in-1 with an OLED touch display, six speakers and a 9.2-megapixel webcam. The chip pairs an Arm-based Grace CPU with up to 20 cores and a Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores in a single system-on-a-chip, letting the laptop measure just 0.69 inches thick, nearly matching the MacBook Pro. Nvidia also revealed mini desktop PCs using the same chip, aimed at running local AI workloads.
wired.com
· 2026-09-03
IEEE has designated the Canadarm, the robotic arm developed by Spar Aerospace and Canada's National Research Council for NASA's space shuttle program, as its 300th Milestone. The device, first flown on Columbia in 1981, helped astronauts move payloads, conduct repairs and inspect shuttles over three decades of service on five orbiters and the International Space Station. The honor was announced at a ceremony held at MDA Space's headquarters, with IEEE Toronto Section having sponsored the nomination.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-09-02
Proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis are recommending investors vote down a proposed $800 million performance-based compensation package for Arm CEO Rene Haas ahead of the company's September 9 annual meeting. The award consists of 425,000 performance share units split into three tranches tied to Arm hitting market capitalizations of $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion, and $2 trillion by 2029-2031, with Arm currently valued near $250 billion.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-02
Pollen Robotics, Hugging Face's French subsidiary, launched a $399 programmable robot called Microduck that sold more than 10,000 units since Thursday, generating over $4 million and pushing delivery timelines past the original Christmas 2026 target. The device relies on Rockchip's RK3566 chip, a Shanghai-listed processor built using licensed technology from Britain's ARM.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-01
IBM's next-generation mainframe processor, discussed by Christian Jacobi and Christian Zoellin at Hot Chips 2026, integrates decoders capable of handling both the z/Architecture instruction set and Arm instructions within the same core. The chip uses a shared decode pipeline with separate instruction decoders for the two architectures, a design approach IBM says differs from earlier dual-ISA attempts like Itanium.
chipsandcheese.com
· 2026-08-31
IBM revealed a new mainframe processor at Hot Chips 2026 that lets a single core natively execute both Arm and IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions, rather than pairing separate cores for each architecture. Built on a 2nm process with 11 cores running above 5.7 GHz, the chip includes AI accelerators for fraud detection and a dedicated data processing unit for I/O. It is the first hardware result of IBM's April 2026 partnership with Arm, aimed at future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems.
newsroom.ibm.com
· 2026-08-26
Qualcomm has revealed early details of its next-generation Oryon CPU core, claiming it will hit clock speeds of up to 5GHz and become the fastest mobile processor core available. The upcoming chip design will feature two 5GHz 'Prime Core' units alongside six 'Performance Core' units, plus a new shared cache system called FlexCache that dynamically allocates memory across cores based on workload demands.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-25
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