Winners and Losers: Nvidia and Arm raise concerns while Fitbit charges on

Information technology's time for Winners and Losers and this calendar week hasn't been short of skillful news. From our first glimpse at Netflix gaming to rumours of a larger smartwatch and a high-finish Mac Mini from Apple, there's been enough of positive updates to choose from.

Ultimately, this week'due south winner has to be Fitbit. The company launched the Charge 5 on Midweek and it arrived with a decent amount of blueprint upgrades and new features to go excited about.

Sadly, we also need to pick out a loser and this week that title goes to Nvidia, later on a report emerged last weekend suggesting the company is having trouble with its multi-billion pound Arm conquering.

Winner: Fitbit

This calendar week's winner is Fitbit, who unveiled its newest fitness tracker – the Fitbit Accuse 5 – on Wednesday.

Fitbit has historically updated its Accuse series one time every ii years and the most recent iteration had come in the class of the Charge 4 in 2020. This meant that, though we'd heard rumours the fitness tracker would exist coming early, we originally didn't look the Charge 5 to land until 2022.

So, what features did the tracker bring to the Charge family other than an early launch engagement?

Blueprint-wise, the Charge 5 is slimmer than its predecessor and is the outset in the Charge line to pack an ever-on colour brandish, with older Charges conveying less flashy greyscale screens.

The Charge five also steals ii features that launched on the health-focused Fitbit Sense last year: the EDA sensor and the ECG app. The EDA Browse app allows users to keep an middle on their body temperature and perspiration to track stress levels, while the ECG app is used to flag atrial fibrillation (AFib) in the heart and share the results with your doctor.

The final major characteristic appear alongside the Charge 5 was Daily Readiness. The Fitbit Premium-exclusive studies a user's fettle fatigue, center rate variability and sleep and offers tailored recommendations, including what workouts to complete next and a new Active Zone Minutes goal.

The Accuse 5 also packs many of the fitness tracking and smartwatch features we saw on the Charge 4 – which isn't necessarily a bad thing when the wearable currently has a identify on our all-time fettle trackers listing.

We're excited to meet how the Charge 5 performs when it reaches users later this yr.

Loser: Nvidia

Unfortunately, this week delivered less exciting news for Nvidia as the visitor'due south Arm conquering establish itself placed under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) here in the UK.

According to a report by the BBC, the competition watchdog is requesting a more than in-depth investigation into Nvidia's £29 billion takeover of Arm due to concerns the deal could "stifle innovation" in the gaming and cocky-driving auto markets, amid other sectors.

Right now, Arm supplies semiconductor chips to a variety of tech brands, including Apple and Qualcomm. I major business is that Nvidia could try to put a finish to this if the takeover is allowed to pass through.

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However, Nvidia has argued that the Arm conquering would actually benefit Arm, licensees and competition in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and has reportedly offered to "resolve whatsoever concerns" the government has well-nigh the takeover.

The acquisition could now be subject to a "phase 2" investigation, which would raise the chances of Nvidia being prevented from buying Arm altogether, according to the BBC.

Nosotros'll have to await and see whether the CMA chooses to proceed to the next phase of the investigation, but if the takeover continues it could mean some huge changes for the tech companies that currently rely on the Arm chips and architecture.