ARM is dropping Qualcomm’s chip design license

23 October 2024
The current situation traces its roots to a legal dispute between the two firms from 2022.

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  • 11 hours ago

Snapdragon 8 Nightmare

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    Can't figure out if this is about the instruction set itself or architecture only

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      IpsDisplay, 11 hours agoQualcomm should have kept using arm and then secretly devel... moreGood luck developing new instruction set, intel tried and failed, arm hasn't gotten to massively popular with desktops either despite x86s age.

      Even if successful and good, nobody would use it, or at least not in big enough capacity to make an impact.

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        Anonymous, 11 hours agoPurchasing nuvia was clear sign of wish to have own design.... moreI think as a plural SOC being more complicated then what a human brain can comprehend I.e.2GB(or 4GB max) is generated by automated softwares as such a new artitecture would be impossible to conceive. But thats just an opinion.

          "if you can't beat em, sue em" - ARM, likely lol

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            IpsDisplay, 11 hours agoQualcomm should have kept using arm and then secretly devel... morePurchasing nuvia was clear sign of wish to have own design.
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              Aka "pay me more". They cant live without each other

                Qualcomm should have kept using arm and then secretly develop their own instruction set.. which honestly is a crazy endeavour in itself .. but maybe it's more practical

                Qualcomm will likely just gonna pay up

                I'm not justifying qualcomm potentially not getting consent

                But monopolies are not good SMH in a perfect world we would have many more instruction sets sadly that's not the reality of things

                  Anonymous, 12 hours agoIt's either Qualcomm designs their own CPU architectur... morethey already did with Oryon cores but ISA it uses to communicate is ARM's property so they have to pay the royalties to use that ISA (kind of a language )

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                    ashrobb, 12 hours agoHuh, in the verge of losing a major customer, and lots of m... moreAll companies want money(ARM) or save money(Qualcomm).
                    Qualcomm does the same about their Intellectual property, so I hardly can fault ARM about It.

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                      • 11 hours ago

                      They gonna pay up

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                        • 11 hours ago

                        Of course they will settle out of court, It's all about money.
                        Qualcomm can't survive without this license.
                        ARM wants money to begin with and baring Qualcomm from ARM would even more accelerate big players to move from ARM architecture to a different one.

                          Anonymous, 12 hours agoDecrease frequency of cores ( also gou too) of 8 elite and ... moreGod I wish, but I don't think these new cores will come to anything but the flagship segment anytime soon.
                          I hope I'm wrong.

                            Huh, in the verge of losing a major customer, and lots of money, they go with the nuclear option... Kinda desperate.

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                              Decrease frequency of cores ( also gou too) of 8 elite and call them 7 elite, 6 elite and 4 elite. .

                              7E: L@3.4 + M@2.8
                              6E: L @ 2.85 + M @ 2.35
                              4E: L @ 2.35 + M @ 1.85

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                                • 12 hours ago

                                It's either Qualcomm designs their own CPU architecture, dropping ARM... Or only God knows what's next.

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