Arm has issued a 60-day notice to terminate its architectural license with Qualcomm.
The move could disrupt Qualcomm’s ability to design Snapdragon chips for smartphones.
The cancellation could also lead to shortages and potential price hikes for Android smartphones.
Update, October 23, 2024 (12:59 PM ET): Qualcomm is understandably not too pleased about Arm’s impactful move here, and is not mincing words about how it characterizes the action:
This is more of the same from ARM – more unfounded threats designed to strongarm a longtime partner, interfere with our performance-leading CPUs, and increase royalty rates regardless of the broad rights under our architecture license.
