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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...