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Arm Holdings to cancel Qualcomm chip design license, source says; shares fall 3%
(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
In an ideal world, Qualcomm would already have been toying with RISC-V chips and have a couple ready to launch.
Sadly, in this world it means next week there will be new licensing in affect that translates to flagship cell phones being $1500 instead of the $1100-1200 range.
Maybe other companies relying on ARM will see this and push to research RISC-V a bit more as an option that can’t be rug-pulled because one group of billionaires insulted another, but even that’s probably wishful thinking.