Arm and Qualcomm’s disagreement over Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court today, with executives from each business taking the stand and trying to minimize the allegations from the opposite.

If you have not been following along, the essence of the problem is Qualcomm’s purchase of a chip style company called Nuvia in 2021. Nuvia was initially established by ex-Apple chip designers to produce high-performance Arm chips for servers, however Qualcomm took an interest in Nuvia’s work and got the business to assist it develop high-end Snapdragon processors for customer PCs rather. Arm declares that this was an infraction of its licensing arrangements with Nuvia and is looking for to have actually all chips based upon Nuvia innovation damaged.

According to Reuters, Arm CEO Rene Haas affirmed today that the Nuvia acquisition is denying Arm of about $50 million a year, on top of the approximately $300 million a year in costs that Qualcomm currently pays Arm to utilize its guideline set and some aspects of its chip styles. This is due to the fact that Qualcomm pays Arm lower royalty rates than Nuvia had actually consented to pay when it was still an independent business.

For its part, Qualcomm argued that Arm was primarily attempting to press Qualcomm out of the PC market since Arm had its own strategies to develop high-end PC chips, though Haas declared that Arm was simply checking out possible future alternatives. Nuvia creator and existing Qualcomm Senior VP of Engineering Gerard Williams III likewise affirmed that Arm’s innovation makes up “one percent or less” of Qualcomm’s ended up chip styles, lessening Arm’s contributions to Snapdragon chips.

Statement is continuous, Reuters reports that a jury decision in the trial “could come as soon as this week.”

If it prospers, Arm might possibly stop sales of all Snapdragon chips with Nuvia’s innovation in them, which at this moment consists of both the Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips for Windows PCs and the Snapdragon 8 Elite chips that Qualcomm just recently presented for high-end Android phones.