News Arm to let Qualcomm keep its architecture license but may ask for a retrial on the Nuvia issue

[Admin]

Arm is no longer pushing to cancel Qualcomm's architecture license agreement after losing its legal battle with the latter.

Arm to let Qualcomm keep its architecture license but may ask for a retrial on the Nuvia issue : Read more

 

[thestryker]

At this point I doubt it'd be worth the cost to Arm to go to court again for this issue specifically. The only place they didn't lose was fairly narrow and doesn't seem to be particularly relevant going forward. Seems like it'd be in the best interest of both companies to just move forward.

 

[Peksha]

At this point I doubt it'd be worth the cost to Arm to go to court again for this issue specifically. The only place they didn't lose was fairly narrow and doesn't seem to be particularly relevant going forward. Seems like it'd be in the best interest of both companies to just move forward.

All these lawsuits from ARM were a nothing burger to begin with. And this new lawsuit will not help them either - Nuvia is no more, and there is no claim against it. They should forget about it.

 

[bit_user]

All these lawsuits from ARM were a nothing burger to begin with.

It was a risky bet, on their part. However, they also came at a time when ARM was preparing for their IPO (i.e. after the Nvidia acquisition fell through). ARM really tried a maximum leverage strategy, but I think it made some sense in context. They needed a credible strategy to give investors for a valuation that would justify the kind of share price they wanted. Even if investors discounted that argument somewhat, they probably still gave it partial weight, on the bet that it might just work out.

In the end, it definitely has hurt the prospects of the ARM ISA. To continue their growth as a company, ARM will focus on its plan B of getting into the silicon game.

In fact, if ARM has some success making their own CPUs and chiplets, I hope they get pushed by regulators to spin off the ISA development & licensing part of their business into an independent entity. This might even be something ARM does of their own volition, once RISC-V catches on and if their silicon design teams want to start designing RISC-V cores. At that point, they could even follow what IBM did with the POWER ISA and establish an OpenARM foundation, or maybe just go half-way and follow what Intel and AMD have done with x86:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...t-aims-to-ensure-a-unified-isa-moving-forward
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