Today, Qucom Luck Ann is announcing that it has completed the acquisition of NUVIA, a start-up company made up of industry giants behind Apple’s high-performance CPU cores, and a start-up company aimed at disrupting the server market with a new server-market. Performance core called “Phoenix”.
The acquisition was announced several weeks ago in mid-January, so the whole process is going very fast in terms of timeline.
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: Qcom) today announced the acquisition of its world-class CPU and technology design g design company, NUVI, at a cost of 1. 1.4 billion for its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. before working capital and other adjustments. Is. “
Today Qualcomm also went so far as to lay out concrete guidelines for a new SOC using a newly acquired IP from Nivea:
“Qualcomm is expected to be sampled in the second half of the Snapdragon Platforms 2022 before demonstrating Qualcomm’s newly built CPU and will be built for high-performance ultraportable laptops. “
For sampling in late 2022, a tap-out should be required in early 2022, and following today’s acquisition the design must be as early as possible. This whole process seems extremely fast and aggressive in terms of time, pointing out that Qualcomm puts a lot of emphasis on the project.
Qualcomm has had a very positive response to the Apple Pal M1, I cite in an interview with Alex Katuzian in December regarding the response to the rival design:
“[…] Laptops these days are really moving towards mobile. The camera is very important. Audio is very important. Battery life is very important. It is very important not to have a fan. Portability, thinness, connectivity, always connected, all those features of mobile are going to PC.
And people say that following is the best form of compliment. See what happened with it [Apple] M1. Their product pitch is almost a duplicate of what we have been saying for the last two or three years. “
Quick action from NewVIA and an immediate announcement of plans to tackle the high-performance ultraportable laptop market can be seen in Qualcomm’s direct response to the new Apple M1 powered laptops and to compete with their high-performance CPU cores.
Article update:
We had the opportunity to call with Qualcomm’s Keith Cressin, SVP and GM, Edge Cloud and Computing, answering many questions about the company’s current plans for the NUVIA team. Qualcomm sees the acquisition as an important strategic addition to the company’s design capabilities, filling the gap in IP design where the company has now relied on external IPs such as the Arma’s Cortex Core for many years. Keith noted the importance of this ability to control in-house design on every IP block in the society, which gave the company better flexibility to respond to market demands and create competitive products.
Immediate goals for the NUVI team include custom CPUs in Windows-powered laptop-class Snapdragon SOCs. Coro will implement, and the company will offer higher performance CPUs than otherwise possible. Will provide. When asked about plans for other product stacks and the possibility of using both home CPUs as well as the possibility of continuing to use the Arm Cortex CPU IP for lower segments, Qualcomm said it would continue to evaluate each metric and select the best fitting design that suits that product category. To make the most sense.
We asked the team whether Qualcomm would continue to invest in NUVIA’s original plans to enter the server and enterprise market, with feedback that this acquisition is not the main goal or motivation, Qualcomm will still keep it open as an option for the future, and the NUVIA team to explore those possibilities. Let. Keith admits here that cracking is a difficult market and Qualcomm has not yet made any decisions on long-term planning.
