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Qualcomm’s big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms
This week, Qualcomm secured a final legal win against Arm in a high-profile licensing dispute around CPU cores developed by Nuvia, which Qualcomm acquired in 2021. A U.S. District Court has now rejected all of Arm’s claims, affirming Qualcomm’s right to use Nuvia’s technology under its architecture license agreement (ALA). Without any doubt, this is…