Internal Qualcomm documents showed the chip firm estimated it could eventually save as much as $1.4 billion a year on payments to Arm , by purchasing a little-known startup in 2021, according to ...

Arm is understandably aggressively defending its technology, as its core business relies on licensing agreements. If Qualcomm could save at least $50 million annually because of its Nuvia purchase ...

Nuvia had a license to use Arm's architecture to design server chips before Qualcomm acquired it. After the deal closed, Qualcomm reassigned Nuvia engineers to work on a laptop processor.

According to Reuters, Arm CEO Rene Haas testified this week that the Nuvia acquisition is depriving Arm of about $50 million a year, on top of the roughly $300 million a year in fees that Qualcomm ...

The jury sided with Qualcomm after Arm argued the chipmaker breached a licensing agreement through a $1.4 billion acquisition of Nuvia, but the case isn’t over yet.

The crux of the litigation is a clash over Qualcomm's license agreement for the use of Arm's intellectual property following Qualcomm's $1.4 billion acquisition of chip startup Nuvia in 2021.

The situation escalated when Arm revoked Nuvia's licenses and, in October, terminated Qualcomm's Architecture License Agreement. // Related Stories.

Arm was concerned about a Qualcomm acquisition because of the potential impact on licensing revenues from one of its largest licensees and sought to have Qualcomm adopt the Nuvia ALA royalty rates ...

Arm, headquartered in the U.K. and majority-owned by SoftBank Group, claims QCOM's NUVIA deal requires renegotiation. Qualcomm vs. Arm underscores the intense world of IP, pitting customer against ...

Arm argues that some Qualcomm devices, such as the Snapdragon X processors, use designs that Nuvia had the licence for before it was bought by Qualcomm, but once it was bought that licence expired.

The chip firm's CEO was testifying as part of a trial to resolve claims that Arm can Qualcomm saw Nuvia buy as chance to save $1.4 billion a year on Arm fees, CEO tells jury Skip to main content ...