09/09 12:45 – Arm-Qualcomm suit threatens Windows-on-Arm’s future
No one seems to want Arm to sue Qualcomm.
Qualcomm obviously doesn’t, given that Arm’s suit last week asks for damages as well as the company to throw out the work that Nuvia, once the saving grace of Arm’s desktop processor ambitions, has put into place.
Microsoft shouldn’t, assuming that it still believes in a competitive hardware ecosystem for Windows on Arm that has been spearheaded by Qualcomm and its Snapdragon processors.
And Arm shouldn’t, either, given that Qualcomm has a chance to crack open the PC market, which is currently a toss-up between the rival X86 architectures of AMD and Intel. (Well, okay — neither one of these two companies would benefit from the increased competition.)
But here we are, with Arm threatening Qualcomm, one of its chief licensees, as the entire…
