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Qualcomm bought Nuvia last year. It was a start-up run by former employees of Apple and Google.
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Nuvia was developing custom Arm silicon. Qualcomm wanted to compete better against Apple.
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To give context, Nuvia's head was the "Chief architect" of the Apple Silicon M1 chipset.
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According to The Information, Nuvia was a target of takeovers by various companies.
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This is especially interesting because it is possible that Google was chasing Nuvia for its Tensor chips.
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A purchase by Google would have given the company access to a world-class SoCs team (with a chipset almost ready to go).
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Still, it could also have meant a Tensor SoC focusing on a specific Pixelbook.