Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors have less than 1% ARM technology |
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It seems that Qualcomm has managed to almost completely level out its dependence on the British ARM Holdings, which develops the design of processors on the ARM architecture of the same name. The Snapdragon chip maker assures that in the new models the use of ARM technologies is minimized. During the court hearing, the CEO of Nuvia, which was previously bought by Qualcomm, said that although the Snapdragon X series of processors with Oryon cores use the Armv8 instruction set, they actually contain very little ARM intellectual property. The company estimates their presence on less than 1% of the entire chipset design. According to Williams, much of the Snapdragon X chip design was completed in Nuvia and Qualcomm labs, and the core architecture was created from scratch. Nuvia was founded in 2019 by former Apple processor developers. It received a Technology License Agreement (TLA) and Architecture License Agreement (ALA) from ARM, which allowed it to use ARM's instruction set to develop its own cores. At the same time, it was initially said that the company would make power-efficient chips for data centers. But in 2021 Qualcomm bought out Nuvia to develop its own cores for personal computers and mobile devices. It turned out that Qualcomm bypassed ARM and got the rights to its technology. Because of this, the companies are now suing, and ARM has revoked Qualcomm's licenses. |
