A US Federal court recently ruled in favour of Qualcomm in a lawsuit against ARM Holdings. A jury trial found that the former’s central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with the latter.
According to Reuters, while it was ruled that the company did not violate the terms of agreements with ARM, the decision wasn’t reach without its own level of drama. Apparently, the jury only came to the conclusion after a week of arguments and deliberations that ended in a mistrial, after it failed to resolve one of three questions that were put before it in the trial.
Due to the nature of the outcome, ARM has vowed to pursue Qualcomm again in the near future, although the presiding US Judge had supposedly just encouraged both companies to simply “mediate their dispute”.
As a quick primer, the ARM lawsuit against Qualcomm alleged that the Nuvia, a company acquired by the latter in 2021 for a sum of US$1.4 billion (~RM6.3 billion), breached the terms of its license with ARM.
To reiterate, the court found that Qualcomm and by proxy, Nuvia, did not breach the license and that it had created chips using Nuvia technology. On top of that, the Nuvia chips are properly licensed under its own agreement with ARM, which means that the Snapdragon maker is clear to continue selling them.
(Source: Reuters)
