ARM gives up on trying to withdraw Qualcomm's chip design license
Back in October, ARM sent out a 60-day notice to Qualcomm, informing it that it would be terminating its chip design license. Qualcomm fired back with a lawsuit, which it won in US federal court in December. However, the jury in that case failed to reach a unanimous verdict, opening up Qualcomm to possible future court cases by ARM.
Now it seems like none of that is going to happen, and this was all a very weird storm in a teacup. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told analysts on a conference call discussing the company"s first quarter results that ARM has now withdrawn its threat to terminate Qualcomm"s license agreement. Here are Amon"s words:
ARM recently notified us that it was withdrawing its October 22, 2024 notice of breach, and indicated that it has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm architecture license agreement.
We assume this means the strange licensing war of late 2024 is over, but who knows, ARM could follow up with something else. Only time will tell.
