Qualcomm faces crisis that could strike at the very heart of Android phones

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Qualcomm faces crisis that could strike at the very heart of Android phones

Arm has issued a 60-day notice to terminate its architectural license with Qualcomm, which could significantly impact Snapdragon chips.
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In a significant update, Arm has decided to kill its licensing agreement with Qualcomm. The move could strike at the very heart of Android phones — Snapdragon chips.

According to a document obtained by Bloomberg, Arm has issued a 60-day notice to Qualcomm regarding the cancelation of their architectural license that allows Qualcomm to design chips based on Arm’s technology.

This growing legal dispute between the two companies threatens to disrupt Qualcomm’s business and the broader smartphone industry.
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Billions of dollars will be lost.

I mean, Qualcomm has a ARM agreement since the early 2000's, at least since 2005-2007.
I'm not a fan of MediaTek CPUs in mobile devices. They had a poor start in the mobile market, trying to compete against Samsung's Exynos and Qualcomm CPUs.
I do see that MediaTek gains some traction, but my previous experiences with MediaTek CPUs in mobile phones was quite bad.

Come to think of it, all the Android devices that I had owned, is all based on a Qualcomm CPU. I had a Exynos device earlier, but it was temporary. The fact is, Qualcomm and the Exynos CPU are way ahead of the MediaTek CPUs in terms of market share, and in some cases, performance.
 
Microsoft are going to be sooooooooo pissed.

They finally have released Windows for ARM laptops that are actually pretty decent machines. Then ARM gets into a fight with the supplier of the chips for those laptops.

If there was ever a time for Intel to really get their battery life up to scratch.
 
Gravedigger said:
Billions of dollars will be lost.

I mean, Qualcomm has a ARM agreement since the early 2000's, at least since 2005-2007.
I'm not a fan of MediaTek CPUs in mobile devices. They had a poor start in the mobile market, trying to compete against Samsung's Exynos and Qualcomm CPUs.
I do see that MediaTek gains some traction, but my previous experiences with MediaTek CPUs in mobile phones was quite bad.

Come to think of it, all the Android devices that I had owned, is all based on a Qualcomm CPU. I had a Exynos device earlier, but it was temporary. The fact is, Qualcomm and the Exynos CPU are way ahead of the MediaTek CPUs in terms of market share, and in some cases, performance.
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The Dimensity 9400 is no slouch though. I would like to see it go toe-to-toe with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Benchmark is one thing, endurance is another though this by large depends on how the device is designed.
 
Gravedigger said:
Billions of dollars will be lost.

I mean, Qualcomm has a ARM agreement since the early 2000's, at least since 2005-2007.
I'm not a fan of MediaTek CPUs in mobile devices. They had a poor start in the mobile market, trying to compete against Samsung's Exynos and Qualcomm CPUs.
I do see that MediaTek gains some traction, but my previous experiences with MediaTek CPUs in mobile phones was quite bad.

Come to think of it, all the Android devices that I had owned, is all based on a Qualcomm CPU. I had a Exynos device earlier, but it was temporary. The fact is, Qualcomm and the Exynos CPU are way ahead of the MediaTek CPUs in terms of market share, and in some cases, performance.
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MediaTek was always budget Chinese tat.
No documentation, poor/buggy hardware, just generally Cheap Chinese Junk
 
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