Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover

Crap like this makes me wish RISC-V was the dominant ISA. Unfortunately it seems like the big players really don’t have any incentive to switch once they get their architecture licenses, since the ARM ecosystem and toolchains are so much more mature. I know Intel is working to support RISC-V in their foundry play, I hope that takes off in a big way.

Not that I feel particularly bad for Qualcomm here, they’re about as litigious, if not more so, than Arm.

> Qualcomm has painted Arm as a greedy, capricious bully that's fixated on extracting more and more licensing fees for its designs

It’s the most hypocritical thing for Qualcomm to complain about since they act the same way with cellular modems and the related patents. They charge a percentage of the entire device.

Apple with their chip is the proof that Qualcomm is betting on the wrong strategy, Microsoft doubling down with them is another proof that the higher ups of Microsoft are both delusional and in denial, they are stuck with a dying x86, and there is no way for them to compete with both Apple and MediaTek

If we replaced lawyers with engineers things would be much better. The engineering work these companies do if fantastic but then they go and waste their time fighting about legalities instead of further advancing technology.

Normally, this kind of issue is dealt with by a “change of control” provision in the contract. Don’t know what the situation is here, if there is such a provision then Qualcomm should be held to comply. Maybe it’s not as explicit and Arm is trying to use some catch-all provision. If so, Arm had bad lawyers draft the contract.

Trust The Register to latch on to the least meaningful, most provocative quote for their headline.