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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by michaelt on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:02AM (#41923203)
According to Wikipedia,

Qualcomm has 50,000 employees, $51 billion assets and $35 billion revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm

ARM Holdings has 7000 employees, $8 billion assets and $3 billion revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings

I think "slightly bigger" is an understatement.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by cduzz on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:07AM (#41924687)
That's roughly the same size -- like swamp thing vs namor -- both are name brand, almost blue chip heros.

Or put another way -- as they said in gawker[1] -- if you're in a lawsuit with a billionaire you better have a billionaire on your side or you're losing.

In this case -- it's unlikely that qualcomm will have quite enough juice to just smoosh Arm, in the same way that they would be able to just smoosh a company that's 100th the size of arm (not just 1/10th), regardless of the merits of the case.

[1]https://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699

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