Third day for Arm vs Qualcomm trial

Yesterday – the third day of the Arm vs Qualcomm court case in Wilmington, Delaware – saw Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon giving evidence.

By David Manners, ElectronicsWeekly  (December 19, 2024)

Amon said he told the Qualcomm board it could save $1.4 billion a year in payments to Arm by buying Arm licensee Nuvia for $1.4 billion in 2021. “It justified the acquisition,” Amon told the court.

Amon thought that by using Nuvia’s cores to make PC processors instead of using Arm’s core designs, Qualcomm would save the $1.4 billion a year on payments to Arm because of the large revenues Qualcomm expected to earn in the PC market.

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