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Arm Cancels Qualcomm's License for Chip IP

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Oct 23, 2024, 9:15 AM by Rich Brome @richbrome

Arm has escalated its legal tussle with Qualcomm by giving 60 days' notice that it is cancelling the architectural license agreement that allows Qualcomm to use Arm's intellectual property to design chips. The two companies are already involved in a legal battle scheduled to reach a Delaware court in December. At issue is Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Both Nuvia and Qualcomm were Arm licensees prior to the acquisition. Arm insists that Nuvia's license did not transfer and Qualcomm should re-negotiate its Arm license to include Nuvia technology. Qualcomm is already using Nuvia's CPU technology in its chips for laptops, and just announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the first chip for phones to use Nuvia technology (which Qualcomm has branded "Oryon"). Qualcomm claims that this latest move by Arm is a "strongarm" negotiating tactic to "increase royalty rates".

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