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This adds context to the Qualcomm/ARM spat. ARM desperately wants to find anything to hold Nuvia hostage so that Qualcomm can be levered into the new charge-for
by kmeisthax 4y ago
This adds context to the Qualcomm/ARM spat. ARM desperately wants to find anything to hold Nuvia hostage so that Qualcomm can be levered into the new charge-for-value licensing model. Before I was on the fence about the lawsuit - there were arguments on both sides that made sense. Now it feels like ARM is trying to pull various coins out of various vending machines.
- nayuki 4y agoI think Qualcomm already charges for value on its own customers, eh? I recall something about them taking royalties from device makers as a percentage of the full device price, not a fixed cost per chip. e.g. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-sues-qualcomm-for-1b-over-unfair-licensing-terms/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-sues-qualcomm-for-1b-...
- wyldfire 4y agoThey do indeed. but their argument was/is that their CDMA licenses made it so that your phone/tablet/etc design was feasible at all. ARM could make this claim too but in ARM's case, it doesn't have standard-essential patents required for network interoperability. That's the bit that pissed Apple off so much that they ordered their suppliers to stop paying the royalties.