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). Arm’s argument is that the licenses it gave Nuvia before it was acquired aren’t valid now that it’s under new ownership. If Arm wins its suit, Qualcomm could be forced to destroy any work it’s done with the particular licenses in question — a significant setback forQualcomm hasn’t been quiet about its goals, or the role that Nuvia’s acquisition plays in them.
According to Arm’s complaint, which you can read in full below, in 2019, it gave Nuvia licenses to both use its “off-the-shelf” processor designs, and to build its own designs using Arm’s architecture Arm also gave the startup “substantial, crucial, and individualized support” for its work to develop server-grade processors.
The problems apparently began when Qualcomm purchased Nuvia for $1.4 billion. According to the complaint, Arm told Qualcomm that it couldn’t use Nuvia’s licenses without Arm’s approval after the company indicated that it planned on using the startup’s tech in several products. The lawyers for Arm claim it spent “more than a year” trying to negotiate an agreement for Qualcomm’s use of Nuvia’s licenses.
Those efforts were apparently unsuccessful — Arm says it terminated the licenses in February 2022, telling Qualcomm it couldn’t use any designs that were made with them. The company suspects, however, that Qualcomm has continued designing chips with the licenses, and is planning on selling them., Qualcomm’s general counsel Ann Chaplin said that “Arm has no right, contractual or otherwise, to attempt to interfere with Qualcomm’s or NUVIA’s innovations.
There have been reports that Qualcomm has been shopping around server processors to companies like Amazon. While the company does have its own Arm licenses that aren’t associated with Nuvia (it was building laptop chips
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