“Arm’s argument is that the Nuvia license was canceled when it was taken over by Qualcomm.”
Arm wants Qualcomm to “destroy and stop using the Nuvia designs” five days before 14 Snapdragon X laptops from seven OEMs hit shelves. Apple and Qualcomm both walked away from Cortex because Arm wasn’t offering what they needed. Now Arm wants Nvidia, MediaTek and AMD to arrive on Windows on its own Cortex cores, which pay Arm more. This isn’t about protecting the ecosystem. It’s a licensor suing its best customer for building a better chip.