The ongoing legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm intensified this week as Qualcomm argued that Arm aims to design its own chips, making them competitors. Arm CEO Rene Haas refuted this claim, stating that while the company explores various strategies, it doesn't currently build chips. The dispute originated in 2022 when Arm sued Qualcomm, alleging the chip giant lacked proper licensing for designs acquired from Nuvia in 2021. Arm contends that Qualcomm's use of these designs in consumer chips, originally licensed for servers, constitutes infringement and has resulted in $50 million in lost revenue.
The Arm vs Qualcomm legal battle has been ongoing for a couple of years . And while nothing's been settled, Qualcomm now seems to be assigning motive to Arm which the semiconductor and software design company has pushed back against., in court on Monday, Qualcomm 's legal team argued that part of the reason for the dispute is that Arm desires to design its own chips and Qualcomm would therefore be a competitor.
The dispute all started in 2022 when Arm filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, claiming the chip company didn't have the proper licence to use some of the Arm designs it was using. These designs came from a company Qualcomm had acquired in 2021 called Nuvia. Arm thinks that, given this, all chips made using these designs
Because of this, Arm believes that Qualcomm isn't paying for the designs, despite Qualcomm's protestations that its own licencing should cover it.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
Both companies obviously have lots of incentive to win this court case, and I for one can see the argument on both sides. On the one hand, Qualcomm already had a licence and it now owns Nuvia, so one could argue these designs should fall under Qualcomm's pre-existing licencing. On the other hand, Qualcomm isn't paying what Arm seems to have originally intended these Nuvia-bought designs to be worth and what it originally agreed to sell them for.
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