ARM is suing its heavyweight customer Qualcomm over a CPU of the same name developed by Nuvia, a startup Qualcomm acquired. Founded by industry veterans like the former chief architect of Apple’s iPhone chips to design server chips, Nuvia has a special architectural license from ARM that allows the design of custom high-end AMR-compatible cores. Qualcomm to acquire Nuvia for $1.4 billion in 2021. ARM believes that the license granted to Nuvia without its permission cannot be transferred and used by Qualcomm. ARM terminated its license with Nuvia in early 2022, requiring Qualcomm to destroy and stop using Nuvia CPU designs. It alleges in the lawsuit that Qualcomm was actually seeking to bypass ARM’s licensing model. Qualcomm denies it violated ARM’s license.
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