UK-based chip IP designer whose CPU architectures are licensed across most of the world's mobile and embedded processors.
Nvidia's board abruptly announced Jensen Huang's resignation as CEO and director, naming CFO Colette Kress interim chief while reportedly approaching Arm CEO Rene Haas as a potential successor. A "33 Years Deserve an Answer" petition demanding his reinstatement and a public investigation framework has drawn over 60,000 signatures, including Elon Musk's public backing. The dispute has escalated from a governance matter into a Silicon Valley-wide leadership battle.
Nvidia's board has approached Arm CEO Rene Haas as a possible successor to Jensen Huang, the Financial Times reported. Haas, who has led SoftBank-owned Arm since 2022, spent roughly seven years at Nvidia over a decade ago and maintains strong ties with Huang and some directors. He is one of several candidates and may neither receive nor accept an offer.
llama.cpp's tiled K-quant matmul previously shipped only AVX-512, AVX2 and AVX inner kernels, forcing Q3_K, Q2_K and IQ-family formats on Arm into a slow path that re-unpacked weights for every dot product. This contribution adds the missing Arm inner kernel built on the NEON SDOT instruction, lifting IQ3_M prompt processing on Neoverse N1 from 11.5 to 74.5 tokens/s (about 6.5x), with 3.3x to 4.9x gains on Neoverse V1 and V2.