By: anon2 (anon.delete@this.anon.com), September 3, 2022 6:28 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on September 3, 2022 11:06 am wrote:
> iz (iz.delete@this.z.x) on September 3, 2022 8:44 am wrote:
> [snip]
> > If Arm is being greedy and sees this as an opportunity to ask much higher royalties, then this
> > process may hurt Arm,
>
> If ARM even seems to be greedy, it will hurt ARM. A suspicious but reasonable view might
> see this as a threat to architectural licensees, but being reasonable (especially in the
> absence of sufficient and reliable information) is difficult for human beings.
>
> After the concern about NVIDIA mishandling ARM and the earlier concern about license pricing
> after the Softbank acquisition, this lawsuit may not be great for ARM. (Qualcomm is not
> so pure and noble a corporation that it would not try to exploit such for profit.)
>
I wonder whether there may have been a wee bit of encouragement from Apple to take this action.
> iz (iz.delete@this.z.x) on September 3, 2022 8:44 am wrote:
> [snip]
> > If Arm is being greedy and sees this as an opportunity to ask much higher royalties, then this
> > process may hurt Arm,
>
> If ARM even seems to be greedy, it will hurt ARM. A suspicious but reasonable view might
> see this as a threat to architectural licensees, but being reasonable (especially in the
> absence of sufficient and reliable information) is difficult for human beings.
>
> After the concern about NVIDIA mishandling ARM and the earlier concern about license pricing
> after the Softbank acquisition, this lawsuit may not be great for ARM. (Qualcomm is not
> so pure and noble a corporation that it would not try to exploit such for profit.)
>
I wonder whether there may have been a wee bit of encouragement from Apple to take this action.