Qualcomm and Arm set for jury verdict in contract breach feud

WILMINGTON, Delaware: A lawsuit by chipmaker Qualcomm against chip technology supplier Arm Holdings will head on Friday to a jury charged with determining if Arm breached licensing agreements and intentionally sabotaged some of Qualcomm’s dealings with Meta Platforms.

The five-day trial is the second in two years between the companies and highlights the deterioration of their business relationship after SoftBank Group Corp acquired control of Arm in 2016 and Arm shifted from licensing the technology needed to make chips to selling chips of its own. At stake is whether Qualcomm, whose license for Arm’s computing architecture runs until 2033, can eventually agree to terms for new versions of Arm’s architecture.