System circuit giant Qualcomm has decided to start the year 2021 with an acquisition. The company announced yesterday that it would buy the startup company Nuvia for just over 1, 15 billion euros. The transaction will, of course, require the approval of the competition authorities.

Nuvia is 2018 a technology startup founded by former Apple processor designers, among others, that is developing its own Arm-based Phoenix core from a clean slate. Last August, the company announced that its kernel would crush current competition in the 1- to 4.5-watt power consumption class per core, compared to Apple’s and Qualcomm’s Arm kernels and AMD’s and Intel’s x 86 kernels.

According to a Qualcomm press release, the company has turned a blind eye specifically to Nuvia’s processor cores, although naturally the engineering skills behind it are also a welcome addition to the house. Qualcomm previously designed its own Arm cores, but has since moved to more moderately custom Cortex-A series cores. According to the release, Qualcomm will replace existing Cortex-A-based processor cores with Nuvia processor cores across the company’s product line.

Source: Qualcomm