Qualcomm's Apple M1 challenger will reach laptops next year

HEXUS noted Nuvia breaking cover with interest in late 2019, with its stated aim of disrupting the Intel / AMD hegemony in the data centre. In August 2020 the start-up previewed its 'clean-sheet CPU design' performance, sharing an eyebrow raising graph plotting performance per watt of its Phoenix cores in Geekbench 5. Nuvia clearly made itself an attractive takeover target and Qualcomm snapped it up for $1.4bn at the start of the year, a deal which completed in mid-March.