Arm warns Qualcomm it will cancel its chip design license

Arm Holdings Plc is canceling Qualcomm’s license to design chips with Arm’s intellectual property, escalating their legal battle. Qualcomm relies on this license to produce ARM based chips for smartphones and PCs, contributing to $39 billion in revenue.

Arm has issued a mandated 60-day notice, giving Qualcomm time to address the issue or risk losing the architectural license, which could severely impact its operations.

If Arm terminates the license, Qualcomm could still use Arm’s blueprints through separate agreements, but it would cause delays and waste existing work.

The dispute originated from Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Qualcomm intends to challenge Arm in court.

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Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
22 October 2024 - Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers

Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.

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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
21 October 2024 - Frustrated Torvalds

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations.

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Exclusive: Here’s how Google is making it easier for Android devices to get 7 years of updates

Google's secret Longevity GRF program makes it easier for SoC vendors like Qualcomm to deliver 7 years of updates. The new Snapdragon 8 Elite is one of the first chipsets under this program.

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ARM Ends Qualcomm’s Processor License in Smartphone Market
https://www.gizchina.com/2024/10/23/arm-ends-qualcomms-processor-license-in-smartphone-market/

Snapdragon 8 Elite will Power Every Galaxy S25 Smartphone Worldwide
https://www.gizchina.com/2024/10/23/snapdragon-8-elite-will-power-every-galaxy-s25-smartphone-worldwide/

Clarification on the unlocked phones being Carrier unlocked, not factory unlocked.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/tmobile-att-think-unlocked-phones-good-for-users/

Prepare your Pixels, because Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 is imminent!

Build ID is AP41.240925.009.

Edit: I'm mashing F5 just as much as y'all are. I'm afraid I have no idea exactly when Google will roll out Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 to Pixel devices. I said what I said because Google has already published the GSIs for Beta 3 - those usually drop an hour before the Pixel update. The Pixel update could still be today or it could be tomorrow, I don't know!

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