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Qualcomm Defeats Arm’s Claim Over Chip Design License Breach

www.bnnbloomberg.ca Qualcomm secures key win in chips trial against Arm

Qualcomm's central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a trial in U.S. federal court that removed some, but not all, uncertainty around the mobile chipmaker's expansion into the laptop market.

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www.bnnbloomberg.ca /business/company-news/2024/12/20/qualcomm-defeats-arms-claim-over-chip-design-license-breach/

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I used to do some work with Qualcomm and ARM IP. They both need to die. ARM is holding back all manner of technologies with their absolutely insane and byzantine licensing scheme and Qualcomm is one of the most evil tech companies in existence, you just don't hear about them because their particular evil is constrained to B2B interactions.
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- Qualcomm bought nuvia, which had a broad license to use ARM's IP. They used said IP to make chips.
  
  ARM claims that the change in ownership somehow invalidates the license and they were required to renegotiate new terms.
  
  They couldn't convince a jury because that doesn't make sense without very specific terms explicitly detailing exactly what conditions nullify their license agreement.
  
  I don’t know why a blanket, terms not transferable upon sale, wouldn’t have covered it, but either that is too broad or didn’t exist in the original Nuvia contract.
  
  That's a bullshit argument, practically it's the same as if Nuvia sold their license to Qualcomm, which they obviously wouldn't have the right to do.
  I don't see how Arm lost this suit, they did NOT grant that license to Qualcomm. The judgement seems ridiculous.
  
  Ok, thanks! Yeah I’m from everything I heard it seems that ARM is just whining.
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This is bonkers

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