Welcome to the Tech Me Brine Home for Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

A huge dispute in the semiconductor space has gone nuclear with implications that are crazy.

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So this is quite aggressive and potentially a bombshell in the chip industry.

Arm is apparently cancelling a license that lets Qualcomm use arms intellectual property to design chips,

escalating the legal dispute between the companies that I didn't quite know was happening,

and certainly not with this level of stakes. Like this is wild.

Strong arm tactics if you will. Oh wait, I'm not the first to that pun, if you will, quoting Bloomberg.

Arm, based in the UK, has given Paul Com a mandated 60-day notice of the cancellation of their so-called

architectural license agreement

according to a document seen by Bloomberg. The contract allows Qualcomm to

create its own ships based on standards owned by arm. The showdown threatens to

royal the smartphone and personal computer markets as well as disrupt the finances and operations of two of the most influential companies in the semiconductor industry.

Qualcomm sells hundreds of millions of processors annually technology used in the majority of

Android smartphones.

If the cancellation takes effect, the company might have to stop selling products that account

for much of its roughly $39 billion in revenue or face claims for

massive damages.

The move ratchets up a legal fight that began when Arm sued San Diego-based Qualcomm, one of its biggest customers for breach

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