what I love about non-commital articles [i understand it is not in techspot’s interests to go deep]–the comment section tonight where I get my real education:
"My understanding is that Qualcomm license the cortex core IP as well as the instruction set. Nuvia licenses only the ARM ISA and is a clean sheet design. Qualcomm wants to start paying for only the ISA, which will mean a big hit to ARM revenue.
I could be wrong, but I’m fairly certain that ARM has their ISA licenses written to prevent such these types of issues. Otherwise, this would have been done a long time ago. Look no further that AMD Intel"
“I think that suggesting " the immediate effects are likely minimal” is a failure in judgement. What ARM has done can start a vicious circle unless the legal mess is quickly resolved and damage is already done.
Any questions that are raised about ARM based products is going to have a ripple effect all the way through the landscape, so when it is something as big as ARM vs. Qualcomm it is massive. The mess is certain to make anyone investing or considering investing into ARM on PC to take notice, it may at best just lead to no changes and at worse it will halt investments!"
I just read all the comments it’s much clearer.
interesting case. end game: risc? is risc the future?
I think there’s a little more to it then just the comments. I don’t blame Arm for wanting to protect their licensing agreements and their technology. This is a legal matter that relates to contractual agreements and licensing of Arm technology. It is a dispute that will be settled out of court or by the courts.