Arm has finally thrown its toys and given 60 days notice that it intends to cancel Qualcomm's licence to produce chips based on Arm technology. So says Bloomberg, which claims to have seen Arm documents detailing the move.
This dispute has been running for a while, but the consequences of such a cancellation, if true, are potentially catastrophic for Qualcomm. The most immediate impact would involve Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chips for PC laptops. In theory, if the licence was cancelled, Qualcomm would have to stop making the Snapdragon X and the whole Windows-on-Arm AI PC thing, which is only just getting going, would implode.
