Qualcomm files antitrust complaints against ARM around the world
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Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has filed complaints alleging anticompetitive practices by processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc with the European Commission, the US Federal Trade Commission and Korea Fair Trade Commission.
Bloomberg reports that Qualcomm’s complaint is that ARM – which has operated an open and equitable intellectual property licensing regime for more than 20 years – is now restricting access to technology and exploiting its market dominance as it prepares to operate in competition with its customers.
The multiple filings come after Qualcomm successfully defended itself in a lawsuit filed by ARM in a Delaware court.
In December 2024 the jury found that Qualcomm’s latest AI-PC processors, based on the ARM instruction set, were properly licensed and did not need a separate license to be negotiated. The formal result was a mis-trial, which left Qualcomm free to continue selling its Snapdragon X processors based on the Oryon core for now, but also left the way open for Arm to seek a re-trial, which it is expected to do.
In the trial it was revealed that CEO Rene Haas had written a strategy paper indicating ARM could start designing its own chips. Haas responded that as CEO it was his job to consider multiple possible courses of action and that this one has not been implemented.
Since then it has been reported that ARM is designing a CPU for data centers as a “chip platform” that will be customizable for multiple customers with Meta as the first.
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