Google apparently wanted to buy Nuvia, possibly to bolster its Tensor efforts

Adam Conway

XDA Developers


Google apparently wanted to buy Nuvia, possibly to bolster its Tensor efforts

Last year, Qualcomm purchased Nuvia, a start-up headed by ex-Google and Apple employees. Nuvia was working on custom Arm silicon, and Qualcomm wanted that so it could better compete with Apple. For context, one of the heads of Nuvia was considered to be the "Chief Architect" of the Apple Silicon M1 chipset. A report by The Information (which also reported that Apple ran into problems with the next-gen GPU it was designing for the A16 Bionic) alleges that Nuvia became a takeover target for a number of different companies, one of which was Google.

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