Re: Report: Arm cancelling contract with Qualcomm

On 2024-10-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

<https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/report-arm-is-sensationally-canceling-qualcomms-chip-license-oct-2024>
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What you need to know
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A new report suggests that Arm Holdings PLC is ending its contract with
Qualcomm Inc. which allows the firm to build chip designs based on Arm
technology.
The cancelation notice lasts for only 60 days, and escalates an on-going
dispute between the UK-based chip architecture giant Arm and US-based
chip maker Qualcomm for processors that are in everything from TVs, to
smartphones, to Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs.
If the cancelation goes through, it could upend the smartphone industry,
given that Snapdragon processors power the vast majority of
Android-based smartphones and tablets, and as well as emerging Arm-based
Windows PCs like the Surface Pro 11.
Qualcomm and Arm have been in a legal dispute for a couple of years now,
and this is the latest escalation in a battle that shows no signs of
slowing down.

It sounds like a destructive battle for both companies... Unless ARM has
ulterior motives, like making a deal with Intel or something like that.

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