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Qualcomm and Arm are locked in a court battle over licensing of intellectual property which could make a real mess of the chip industry.
ARM licenses its architectural designs and related IP to chipmakers which in turn produce chips that are then sold to OEMs that use those chips to make servers and other computers and devices.
However Qualcomm argues that ARM is no longer going to license its CPU designs after 2024 to Qualcomm and other chip companies under technology license agreements. Instead, Qualcomm asserts, Arm will only license to a broad array of device makers.
Qualcomm and Arm are locked in a court battle over licensing of intellectual property which could make a real mess of the chip industry.
ARM licenses its architectural designs and related IP to chipmakers which in turn produce chips that are then sold to OEMs that use those chips to make servers and other computers and devices.
However Qualcomm argues that ARM is no longer going to license its CPU designs after 2024 to Qualcomm and other chip companies under technology license agreements. Instead, Qualcomm asserts, Arm will only license to a broad array of device makers.
