Right, but I'm struggling to see why ARM would care. Legally speaking the license can say whatever the hell it wants and the courts will just execute it. If ARM

Right, but I'm struggling to see why ARM would care. Legally speaking the license can say whatever the hell it wants and the courts will just execute it. If ARM specifically wants to silo off architectural licensees from one another then so be it. But... ARM negotiated the cost of their licenses based on the markets the chips would be sold into, with Qualcomm presumably paying a significant premium over Nuvia based on phones being a more established market. There's nothing here that prohibits Qualcomm from building a new chip using exactly the same team they bought, because they already paid buckets of cash for the privilege[0]. The only thing ARM can reasonably enforce is that they do it from scratch, and doing so requires they go and sue their own customers so they can use discovery as their compliance tool. And suing over something that trivial seems... petty? Like, I could see chip design houses looking to RISC-V or something else if ARM gets a reputation for suing on every M&A. [0] For the record, this is exactly the same thing Apple did. They bought a chip design firm and a CPU core design firm and had them build ARM cores and SoCs.