Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X CPU, which looked very promising at launch and ought to have been getting into its stride this year.

On Sept. 13, Nvidia NVDA announced it would acquire ARM from the SoftBank Group in a transaction valued at $40 billion. At first glance, the most logical rationale for this deal is to enable Nvidia to offer a comprehensive data center portfolio that ...

Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026. Arm laptops are easier to recommend to more people, though x86 will still be the better choice for gaming for the foreseeable future.

The largest proposed semiconductor acquisition in IT history -- Nvidia merging with Arm -- was called off today due to significant regulatory challenges, with antitrust issues being the main hurdle. The $40 billion deal was initially announced in ...

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has delighted its shareholders with a return of nearly 1,000% since the start of 2023, but Thursday brought investors a rare post-earnings drop as the AI chip leader closed down 6.4% for the day. While the company beat headline ...

Now it is official Nvidia has announced that its proposed acquisition of ARM Holdings from SoftBank Group Corp. has been terminated. The parties agreed to terminate the agreement because of “significant regulatory challenges preventing the consummation ...

Processors Intel and Nvidia announce stunning plans to combine their CPU and GPU products for both consumer PCs and AI servers, with Nvidia taking a $5 billion stake in Intel Hardware 'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, amid ...

Arm and Nvidia announced at the Supercomputing '25 conference that Arm had joined the NVLink Fusion ecosystem, marking a major advance for the technology, which is now supported by two major microarchitecture developers and four CPUs developers in total.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the best companies to be invested in over the past year. It has shot up like a rocket on the back of massive graphics processing unit (GPU) demand driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race. GPUs are great ...

Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval for the $40-billion chip deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Nvidia has told partners ...