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The licenses provided Nuvia access to specific Arm architecture, designs, intellectual property, and support in exchange for payment of licensing fees and royal

The licenses provided Nuvia access to specific Arm architecture, designs, intellectual property, and support in exchange for payment of licensing fees and royalties on future server products that include processor cores based on Arm’s architecture, designs, or related intellectual property. Arm provided preferential support for Nuvia’s development efforts, with Arm seeking to accelerate research and development in next-generation processors for data center servers to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology. This is from the legal filing.

adrian_b 2y ago
The paragraph about "support" is void of any content. Arm does indeed provide significant technical support to the companies that buy Arm IP, as it is normal for any vendor, but that does not apply to companies like Nuvia. For companies which buy ISA licences, there is very little need for technical support, at most some clarifications about how to implement the compliance tests. There are only a handful of companies with ISA licenses, which have only very infrequently needs for technical support, so even if a single Arm employee is assigned for this task there is no need for "preferential support" in order to respond immediately to any support request. "Arm seeking to accelerate research and development in next-generation processors for data center servers to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology" just means that Arm has continued to act as a competitor for Nuvia, in developing their own Neoverse server cores and related infrastructure. It is true however that only because the Arm CPUs have a minor share of the server market for now, the progress for one of them can still have a synergetic effect on the others, instead of an antagonistic effect, so there is a little truth in the claim of Arm that they have worked "to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology", but in any case that does not mean that Arm has spent any cent with the support of Nuvia. All the text that is public about the Arm-Qualcomm conflict is useless, because it avoids to quote the relevant paragraphs of the contracts between Arm and both companies, which would have clarified instantly which party is right.

adrian_b 2y ago

The paragraph about "support" is void of any content. Arm does indeed provide significant technical support to the companies that buy Arm IP, as it is normal for any vendor, but that does not apply to companies like Nuvia. For companies which buy ISA licences, there is very little need for technical support, at most some clarifications about how to implement the compliance tests. There are only a handful of companies with ISA licenses, which have only very infrequently needs for technical support, so even if a single Arm employee is assigned for this task there is no need for "preferential support" in order to respond immediately to any support request. "Arm seeking to accelerate research and development in next-generation processors for data center servers to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology" just means that Arm has continued to act as a competitor for Nuvia, in developing their own Neoverse server cores and related infrastructure. It is true however that only because the Arm CPUs have a minor share of the server market for now, the progress for one of them can still have a synergetic effect on the others, instead of an antagonistic effect, so there is a little truth in the claim of Arm that they have worked "to support that sector’s transition to Arm technology", but in any case that does not mean that Arm has spent any cent with the support of Nuvia. All the text that is public about the Arm-Qualcomm conflict is useless, because it avoids to quote the relevant paragraphs of the contracts between Arm and both companies, which would have clarified instantly which party is right.