Report: Arm cancels Qualcomm’s architecture license, endangering its chip business
Any company that makes Arm chips must license technology from Arm Holdings plc, the British company that develops the instruction set. Companies can license the instruction set and create their own CPU designs or license one of Arm's ready-made Cortex CPU core designs to incorporate into their own chips.
Arm to cancel Qualcomm's architectural license in 60 days over Nuvia dispute
The chip design firm gave a mandated 60-day notice of their cancelation to Qualcomm, Bloomberg reports. Arm claims that when Qualcomm acquired AI chip company Nuvia - which uses the Arm architecture - for $1.4 billion in 2021, it was required to seek Arm's approval to transfer licenses from Nuvia over to Qualcomm.
In 2021, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, which received the Arm licenses in 2019. This acquisition ignited the dispute between ...
Arm Holdings Plc is canceling a license that allowed longtime partner Qualcomm Inc. to use Arm intellectual property to ...
Qualcomm is the company behind the chips found in smartphones, laptops and many other devices we use daily. But it may soon ...
ARM and Qualcomm find themselves in a legal tussle over a licensing issue, here's why its important for the smartphone ...
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