Friday, February 07
Daily News Stuff 7 February 2025
Tired Tapir Edition
Tired Tapir Edition
Top Story
- Arm has abandoned its quest to revoke Qualcomm's Arm license, largely because it already lost its lawsuit. (The Register)
Nuvia, which had an Arm license, developed a new Arm core.
Qualcomm, which had an Arm license, bough Nuvia to acquire the new core. This is where Qualcomm's new range of laptop chips originated.
Arm sued both Qualcomm and Nuvia, arguing that although both companies had paid Arm for a license they mumble mumble mumble and therefore mumble.
The jury laughed at them.
Tech News
- Qualcomm says its CPUs can be found in 10% of Windows laptops priced over $800. (Hot Hardware)
Not sure whether that is good or bad.
- The former head of the USDS - the department now running the DOGE team - has resigned effective immediately. (The Verge) (archive site)
He stated explicitly that he is not taking the fork. Apparently someone already stole it.
Musical Interlude
Axel F, the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, played more or less on an original Amiga. It looks like this is an emulator, and it has 1MB of RAM where a stock Amiga had just 512K, but pretty close.
The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good. But it nailed this piece.
The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good. But it nailed this piece.
Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.
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"Arm sued both Qualcomm and Nuvia, arguing that although both companies
had paid Arm for a license they mumble mumble mumble and therefore
mumble."
I read that Arm's claim was that Nuvia's license was non-transferrable. If that's true (and legal), they probably should've won--but Qualcomm could've avoided this situation by keeping Nuvia alive, claiming the Oryon cores were still Nuvia's, and then "buying" them from their own subsidiary.
That makes me wonder if they did it the way they did on purpose.
I read that Arm's claim was that Nuvia's license was non-transferrable. If that's true (and legal), they probably should've won--but Qualcomm could've avoided this situation by keeping Nuvia alive, claiming the Oryon cores were still Nuvia's, and then "buying" them from their own subsidiary.
That makes me wonder if they did it the way they did on purpose.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, February 07 2025 11:15 PM (NEIix)
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I'd love to find a relatively-inexpensive SBC with 3-4 Cortex-A cores that had a complete datasheet and technical manual, like you can easily find with Cortex-M cores. I'm not picky about it, something with a few A7s would be cool to play with. (Everyone who offers stuff like that seems to just straight up provide a Linux image but it might be interesting to do something a little less complex.)
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, February 07 2025 11:18 PM (NEIix)
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Mumble. (And you can quote me on that.)
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, February 08 2025 04:31 AM (KOtXO)
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