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Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.

Analysts have said that sales of all Copilot+ PCs—which at this point encompasses a number of systems sold with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD chips inside— accounted for less than 10 percent of all PC shipments in the third quarter of 2024. Interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus also claimed recently that Qualcomm PCs were being returned more frequently because of software compatibility issues; Arm PCs can run most Windows apps and even plenty of games at this point, but there are still some kinds of software (like device drivers) that can't be translated from x86 to Arm automatically. Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.

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