Arm looking to charge phone-makers
It sounds like a sign of desperation on the part of Softbank but it is ‘doing a Qualcomm’ with Arm’s licensing model.
Qualcomm’s patent licensing fees were calculated based on the selling price of the phones into which its chips were built, not on the selling price of the Qualcomm chips which went into the phone.
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