This looks an awful lot like patent trolling. IIUC, Qualcomm could have designed and fielded the exact cores Nuvia did, under their existing license. That Nuvi

This looks an awful lot like patent trolling. IIUC, Qualcomm could have designed and fielded the exact cores Nuvia did, under their existing license. That Nuvia had rights under some other license to ship their designs should have no effect on what Qualcomm is (also) allowed to ship. That said, Qualcomm is also an evil licensing troll, and if they agreed to stupid terms, that is on their heads. It would not be surprising if Qualcomm sidestepped to RISC-V, or a proprietary variant of it that they like better, and left ARM behind. But maybe the microarchitectural mojo in the licensed ARM cores they use has permanently tainted them. If so, again, nobody deserves that more.