Daily Tech News 24 October 2024

• Arm has given notice to Qualcomm that it - Arm - plans to cancel it's - Qualcomm's - Arm architecture license. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  CPU startup Nuvia paid for an Arm architecture license, which allowed that company to design custom Arm processor cores. Nuvia was then acquired by Qualcomm, which also had an Arm architecture license, and its - Nuvia's - designs became what is now the Qualcomm X series which has made its way into Windows laptops that for the first time ever provide adequate performance for Windows on Arm.
  
  Arm is upset about this because its - Arm's - own cores don't provide adequate performance in Windows laptops so nobody uses them, and cores produced on an architecture license provide Arm less revenue than its - Arm's - own designs.
  
  So Arm is suing Qualcomm for squillions of dollars and wants to prevent it - Qualcomm - from selling processors designed with its - Qualcomm's - own cores, despite it - Qualcomm and Nuvia both - having paid it - Arm - for a license to do so.
  
  It - the entire situation - is a mess and I don't know how things will turn out.

• The front fell off: Intelsat-33 experienced an anomaly. (CBS)
  
  Which is to say that the US Space Force is now tracking around twenty individual fragments of what used to be the satellite.
  
  Intelsat-33 was made by Boeing.
  
  
  
• Huawei reportedly tried to manufacture its chips at TSMC using a cut-out company. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Alert employees at TSMC raised the alarm when they noticed that the new Ascend 910B they had been contracted to manufacture was very similar to Huawei's Ascend 910.
  
  Also it was marked Copyright Huawei all rights reserved.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which Huawei's HarmonyOS is finally here, divorcing the company's devices from Google's Android. (The Register)
  
  HarmonyOS is Android. (Ars Technica)
  
  
  
• Speaking of Ars Technica Tesla reported a quarterly profit of $2.2 billion and psychosis is running rampant among the commentariat. (Ars Technica)
  
  I do not get a spell-check warning for commentariat. Huh.
  
  

• Meanwhile the Tesla Cybertruck is the third best selling EV in America. (Tech Crunch)
  
  After the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y.
  
  The Ars commentariat could not be reached for comment.
  
  
  
• Eero's new Eero Outdoor 7 takes wifi beyond your walls by putting wifi beyond your walls. (The Verge)
  
  Remarkable.
  
  
  

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