Arm Threatens to Cancel Qualcomm’s Chip Design License
Amid Qualcomm’s ongoing Snapdragon Summit event, Arm Holdings has threatened the American chipmaker that it will cancel an architectural license that is used for developingSnapdragon X EliteandSnapdragon 8 Elitechipsets.Bloombergreports that Arm has given a 60-day notice of cancellation to Qualcomm. Arm filed a lawsuit against both Qualcomm and Nuvia arguing that its original licensing terms with Nuvia were for server CPUs which is a lower-volume product. And that license is now being used to design higher-volume mobile chipsets like Nuvia-designed Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite....