ARM wants a sweeter deal.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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Nailed it. They know they have a leading chip in these designs now, the market is expanding, and whatever licensing fee was negotiated in the past needs to be revisited.
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ARM is mad because Qualcomm bought Nuvia (which had their own ARM license) and then started using Nuvia's designs. ARM says that Qualcomm needs to renegotiate the license in order to use those designs.
Normally ARM and Qualcomm would handle this fairly smoothly, the reason its not happening this time is because ARM and Qualcomm both have growth plans that are increasingly making them direct competitors.
Is this somewhat related why qualcomm suddenly decided to bring oryon to smartphones?
Yes, absolutely related. This fight started because Qualcomm bought Nuvia and started using their designs (and their ARM license for those designs). This recent escalation is almost certainly because Qualcomm is about to bring Oryon, which was designed by Nuvia, to smartphones.
Read this article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud/ar-AA1sK49J
Geez, that is some stupid situation, I kinda got excited with oryon going on android since it is their only ip that is currently being opensourced.
IDK man but my tinfoil hat says that apple are the one who is pulling the strings on arm with regards to this.
And we all wept.
Just when ARM devices were finally getting good…