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In a shocking move, Arm cancels Qualcomm's license to manufacture Snapdragon chips | Qualcomm is almost entirely dependent on those licenses for its products

This "architectural license" agreement is the core partnership that's kept Android smartphones humming with Qualcomm's cutting-edge processors for years. Now, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg, Arm...

Both sides have also been quietly negotiating a potential settlement, but Arm's scorched-earth license termination could indicate those talks have broken down – or that it simply decided to go with the nuclear option. Now, in light of the notice, Qualcomm fired back that Arm is just trying to "strong-arm a longtime partner" and disrupt the legal process with this termination threat, calling it "completely baseless." Following the acquisition, Nuvia's tech lived on as the Oryon custom CPU cores now powering Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X Elite processors for Windows on Arm laptops and other Copilot+ PCs.

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