Just when you thought things were great – after all, you’ve just unveiled your latest maxed-out smartphone chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, it turns out that problems are incoming. These must be the recent thoughts of Qualcomm bosses, after they learned what’s coming from their partner, Arm Holding.
Just when you thought things were great – after all, you’ve just unveiled your latest maxed-out smartphone chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, it turns out that problems are incoming.
These must be the recent thoughts of Qualcomm bosses, after they learned what’s coming from their partner, Arm Holding.
Arm, a UK-based company (owned by Japan’s SoftBank), designs the CPU cores used in roughly 95% of the world’s smartphones. In addition to its CPU technology, Arm also develops the Mali line of graphics processing units (GPUs).
And what’s coming is that Arm Holdings has terminated a long-standing licensing agreement with Qualcomm, marking a major escalation in their ongoing legal battle over chip technology.
Arm issued Qualcomm a 60-day notice to end the architectural license, which allows the US firm to design its own chips using Arm’s intellectual property. This development threatens to disrupt the smartphone and computer markets, as both companies are influential players in the semiconductor industry, reads a report by Bloomberg.
