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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  • 23 Oct 2024

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, 23 Oct 2024It'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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        • 23 Oct 2024

        ashrobb, 23 Oct 2024Huh, 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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          • 23 Oct 2024

          They gonna pay up

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            • 23 Oct 2024

            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, 23 Oct 2024Decrease 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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                  • 23 Oct 2024

                  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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                    • 23 Oct 2024

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

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