SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM)
Arm, a semiconductor design business owned by SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY), announced on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) for contract breach and trademark infringement.
The case was filed by a chip design business, Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) being one of the company’s most important clients. It is related to Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. The issue, according to the lawsuit, stems from Qualcomm’s purchase of the chip firm Nuvia Inc. last year. According to a statement announcing a lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Delaware, businesses generate semiconductor designs using Arm licensing, and they cannot be transferred to QCOM without authorization. After failed negotiations in February, Nuvia’s licenses were canceled, according to Arm.
Bloomberg quotes Arm as saying that because talks fell through, Nuvia’s licenses were revoked in February. Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) was reportedly planning to utilize its $1.4 billion purchase of Nuvia to re-enter the server business, with Amazon (AMZN) as a prospective client.
When questioned about the case, a Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) spokeswoman declined to comment to Seeking Alpha. In midday trading on Wednesday, shares of QCOM, a San Diego-based company, decreased by more than 1% to $132.17.
This week, it was revealed that the European Union’s antitrust authorities made the decision not to challenge a judge’s judgment to dismiss QCOM’s $991M punishment for its choice to supply Apple with semiconductors. The dispute will attract a lot of interest as Qualcomm and Arm are two of the most significant chip manufacturers in the world.
The majority of CPUs and modems used in smartphones are produced by QCOM, a company based in San Diego. However, it uses an instruction set developed by UK-based Arm, a company that is responsible for most of the underlying technology for mobile devices, like many other chips in the chip business. The fundamental computer code used by chips to operate software like operating systems is known as an instruction set.
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