Chipsets

Intel announced that it will license the ARM architecture so it can start building ARM chips for customers--its third big try at becoming an important player in the mobile market.

Google and a team of researchers from various universities managed to simulate the hydrogen molecule on a quantum computer for the first time.

Softbank, the Japanese telecommunications company that previously acquired Sprint, announced that it bought ARM Holdings for $32 billion.

Vesper announced a new generation piezoelectric MEMS microphone that's also its first quiescent-sensing MEMS microphone that can draw almost zero power while being in always-on mode.

IBM launched access to its five-qubit universal quantum computer to give students and developers an opportunity to experiment with building applications for quantum computers.

Movidius announced its Fathom neural compute stick, which can improve the deep learning capabilities of an embedded device by orders of magnitude at less than 1.2W of power.