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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] ravhall@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess they will have to make x86 work

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Qualcomm, x86-64?

Intel and AMD aren't going to give them the go-ahead for that lol

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They cannot veto it. The patents for x86-64 and SSE2 lapse next year. The only say they have is on extension newer than these two.