I remember Qualcomm making phone SoCs with custom cores some years back. Why is it suddenly an issue now? Or were those just rebrands of tweaked Cortex designs?
EDIT: From reading the Reuters article [0] it seems that Arm's argument is that since Nuvia's
cores were developed under a now-terminated licence, Qualcomm doesn't have a right to use them, their other licences notwithstanding.
I remember Qualcomm making phone SoCs with custom cores some years back. Why is it suddenly an issue now? Or were those just rebrands of tweaked Cortex designs?
EDIT: From reading the Reuters article [0] it seems that Arm's argument is that since Nuvia's cores were developed under a now-terminated licence, Qualcomm doesn't have a right to use them, their other licences notwithstanding.
[0]: https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2024-06-10/a...