A jury ruled in favor of Qualcomm, finding that its mobile processor designs did not violate Arm Holdings' licenses. The decision concludes a two-year legal battle over allegations that Qualcomm breached the terms of its licenses when it acquired Nuvia, a chip designer. While the jury found in Qualcomm's favor on two of three questions regarding licensing, it was unable to reach a consensus on whether Nuvia had breached its agreement with Arm.
Qualcomm 's push into the PC arena is safe, at least for the moment, after a jury found its mobile processor designs had not violated Arm Holdings ' licenses as the British chip designer had claimed.
The jury found in Qualcomm's favor on questions two and three, but was unable to reach consensus regarding whether Nuvia had breached its ALA with Arm. However, the bigger issue related to Qualcomm's Nuvia-derived Oryon cores came down to how the royalty payments collected by Arm under the deal. Nuvia was apparently subject to a higher royalty rate than Qualcomm's mobile system on chip designs. The issue came when Qualcomm attempted to use Nuvia's tech at that lower rate.The jury's findings regarding Qualcomm's actions mark a victory for the mobile chip giant's PC ambitions.
However, the exclusive nature of Qualcomm's X-series chips was rather short lived. Within months of the X-Elite's launch, both AMD and Intel introduced powerful new SoCs of their own, with NPUs qualifying them for the Copilot+ PC brand. "We are disappointed that the jury was unable to reach consensus across the claims. We intend to seek a retrial due to the jury's deadlock," the chip designer said in a statement, received byfollowing the conclusion of the trial."From the outset, our top priority has been to protect Arm's IP and the unparalleled ecosystem we have built with our valued partners over more than 30 years.
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