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Jess Kinghorn

Arm won't keep chasing after Qualcomm on the grounds of licensing shenanigans—but the legal jostling isn't over

Promotional image of a generic Snapdragon X Plus chip in a stylized circuit board.

Listen, I'm only human and I love a big business slap fight about as much as the next guy. Unfortunately, these legal bouts sometimes end with a bit of an anticlimax, and that brings us to the current state of British semiconductor design company Arm's throwdown with Qualcomm.

Rather than keep fighting, Arm has decided to stop trying to terminate Qualcomm's license to produce chips based on its technology (via The Register). This means that Qualcomm is free to continue producing its Arm-based range of laptop chips, the Snapdragon X CPU line, thereby bringing some closure to a legal dispute that's been raging since August 2022. Alas, there are no knockouts here—I should've stuck to watching pro-wrestling.

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