TLDR Hardware · MISCELLANEOUS

JURY FINDS ARM BREACHED QUALCOMM'S CHIP LICENSE BUT AWARDS JUST $2

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A Delaware jury found Arm breached its architectural license with Qualcomm by failing to provide software patches and tools for its designs, and intentionally interfered with Qualcomm's Meta chip talks, but awarded just $2 in damages. Arm won five other breach claims, and Qualcomm's license runs through 2033, so its Oryon CPU work continues. Both sides claimed vindication, with Qualcomm shares up about 2.5% and Arm down about 2.2%.