Qualcomm in 2021 will grow even more than in 2021, these are analysts' forecasts. This will not happen due to a greater dynamism due to the presidency of Cristiano Amon, but also due to its concentration in other areas. It's news today that the eternal US company MediaTek competitor ha purchased the startup Nuvia (not to be confused with Nubia). But what does this company do? Let's go see it together and understand what the union with the microprocessor giant will entail.
Nuvia joins Qualcomm, or rather it is bought: improving Snapdragon and reducing its dependence on ARM is the goal of the American giant
Before seeing the main news, a little curiosity: it seems that Nuvia's founders are three former Apple employees. One of these is Manu Gulati, the person responsible for the processors of the bitten apple. Qualcomm's Nuvia purchase agreement was concluded for the modest sum of 1.4 billion € ($ 1.8 billion). After the transition, the team of the first company will join the design team of the American giant.
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According to Cristiano Amon, the company's new CEO, the technology of Bride will help produce significant leaps in power for Snapdragon processors, while reducing energy requirements. This is a point that should not be underestimated considering the consumption required by new generation processors equipped with 5G modems. The newly acquired company has been working on the design and development of custom CPU cores.
The NUVIA team is a proven innovator and, like Qualcomm, has a strong heritage in creating cutting-edge products and technologies. I am very excited that he will join our team. Together, we will be ideally positioned to redefine computing and enable our ecosystem of collaborators and partners to drive innovation and deliver a new class of products and experiences for the 5G era.
Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm
Attention, we are not talking only about smartphones but about ecosystems. This means that the "collaboration" will amplify and see the work of the ex-Nuvia also on other kinds of products.
But what does ARM have to do with?
It should be known that to date the Amun company has purchased components for its products from ARM. By detecting Nuvia, these components they could be built at home and therefore the prices of the processors could go to lower. This results in future smartphones that will cost even less.
Through | TechCrunch
