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 ...

Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon told the company board that purchasing Nuvia outright would save it as much as $1.4 billion per year in payments to Arm.

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.

Qualcomm, which acquired Nuvia for $1.4 billion last year, said Arm has no right to interfere with Qualcomm’s or NUVIA's innovations. "Arm’s complaint ignores the fact that Qualcomm has broad ...

Arm says that Qualcomm doesn’t have permission to use the licenses it gave to Nuvia, even after it acquired the company in 2021. Nuvia’s tech has been a major part of Qualcomm’s plans for ...

Qualcomm and Nuvia represent Arm's biggest shot at near-term market growth, which means more royalties for Arm. Qualcomm has stated it wants to use Nuvia's Arm designs to go after the laptop and ...

Nuvia was originally founded by ex-Apple chip designers to create high-performance Arm chips for servers, but Qualcomm took an interest in Nuvia's work and acquired the company to help it create ...

According to Reuters, Arm is seeking an injunction that would ask Qualcomm to “destroy” the designs that Nuvia is working on with Qualcomm. In 2021, Qualcomm bought the Nuvia design team and ...

Arm says that it spent “more than a year” trying to negotiate an agreement for Qualcomm’s use of Nuvia’s licenses, but terminated the licenses in February. "Arm has no right, contractual or otherwise, ...

Chip startup Nuvia has raised $240 million to design Arm-based processors for datacenters in a bid to balance energy efficiency and high performance.. The funding is huge for a company that was ...