“Arm recently notified us that it was withdrawing its October 22nd, 2024 notice of breach and indicated that it has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. (Qualcomm reported record quarterly revenue, and Amon says Snapdragon now has 10 percent share of $800-plus Windows laptops at US retail.) A federal jury decided the earlier part of Arm’s beef with Qualcomm, though it didn’t quite decide whether Qualcomm-owned Nuvia breached an agreement with Arm over chip designs.

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Qualcomm says Arm is no longer threatening to take its chip architecture away.

”Arm recently notified us that it was withdrawing its October 22nd, 2024 notice of breach and indicated that it has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. (Qualcomm reported record quarterly revenue, and Amon says Snapdragon now has 10 percent share of $800-plus Windows laptops at US retail.)

Sounds like the chip licensing drama is coming to an end, although it’s hard to know what agreements went on behind the scenes to call off the giants’ battle.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    2 days ago

    10% of windows laptops being sold are ARM?

    That’s gotta be some weird corporate buyer thing, because otherwise I strongly don’t buy that line at all.

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I mean, just looking at a store like Best Buy, the snapdragon laptops look really good for their price. If you’re not gaming, they do office and school tasks just as well. And for a lot of people, the thin fanless one that doesn’t get hot and has 30 hours of battery life is really what they want in a device. And they’re used as chromebooks in a lot of cases, where compatibility isn’t really a concern.