Fans of this newsletter know I'm a major chip nerd. I started my tech career as a semiconductor reporter, and for the last seven or eight years I've been closely watching RISC-V, an open source chip architecture. The RISC-V architecture, which was … [Read more...]
Here are the reasons behind today’s crazy chip deals
Look what the internet of things has wrought! Monday, Broadcom, which was bought in 2015 by Avago in a $37 billion acquisition, said it would spend up to $103 billion buying Qualcomm. Let’s not forget that Qualcomm is trying to close a $47 billion … [Read more...]