Arm is terminating its architectural license agreement with Qualcomm amid a legal dispute. This cancellation notice could disrupt Qualcomm's chip designs and their market, particularly for Microsoft's Copilot+ laptops. A trial is set for December, with both companies potentially reaching a settlement beforehand.
  • Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

    In an ideal world, Qualcomm would already have been toying with RISC-V chips and have a couple ready to launch.

    Sadly, in this world it means next week there will be new licensing in affect that translates to flagship cell phones being $1500 instead of the $1100-1200 range.

    Maybe other companies relying on ARM will see this and push to research RISC-V a bit more as an option that can’t be rug-pulled because one group of billionaires insulted another, but even that’s probably wishful thinking.