The U.K. government is weighing whether to block Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of Softbank-owned semiconductor designer Arm, following a critical assessment of the deal by the country’s antitrust regulator, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. Last month, the Competition and Markets Authority delivered a report to the U.K. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden with its assessment of...
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What’s in a name? In the case of Apple-designed silicon, not much: from the A-series of chips designed for iPhones through to the M1 and new M2 chips, Apple’s only revision to each new name is updating the number.So, when Mark Gurman of Bloomberg says he expects that Apple’s mixed reality headset will use the M2 chip—which lines up with what The Information’s Wayne Ma reported last month—and...
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