You mean the ISA? Qualcomm has a license to the ISA that allows them to make and sell custom microarchitectures. They had it before they acquired Nuvia.

>You may not think that it has value but Qualcomm clearly does.

Qualcomm will likely push RISC-V hard, thus not use ARM ISA at all, from now on.

Refer to this recent announcement by SiFive[0] for some Qualcomm quotes that hint at that.

0. https://www.sifive.com/press/sifives-new-high-performance-pr...

You do know that exaggerated statements like this - which is obviously false - actually harm your cause in promoting RISC-V.

The exact quote is:

>"We are excited to see RISC-V solutions for wearable and consumer devices becoming a reality, and we are looking at possibilities of integrating SiFive’s latest products into Snapdragon platforms,” said Ziad Asghar, Vice President, Product Management- Snapdragon Technologies and Roadmap at Qualcomm.

edit: I meant "Qualcomm will likely push RISC-V hard, thus not choose ARM ISA at all, from now on." -- My bad.

And please take note of what I'm saying. You really don't do your cause any favours with this approach.

i.e. they will not be using ARM by choice anymore.

Unfortunately, I cannot edit the parent post anymore; As it's often the case, it's easy to miss things even when re-reading your own comments.

It was blatantly obvious when reading it again now.

To get back on topic... you said:

>Qualcomm wants to use IP that was 100% developed by Arm

And then I told you,

>You mean the ISA? Qualcomm has a license to the ISA that allows them to make and sell custom microarchitectures. They had it before they acquired Nuvia.

You have not addressed that, at all.