Chip firm Arm is cancelling an architectural license agreement that allows Qualcomm to use its intellectual property to design chips, a person familiar with the matter said, amid an ongoing legal battle between the two companies.

It's the former that Qualcomm has done with Snapdragon X, so the licence cancellation would apply to custom CPU designs, but not to other Qualcomm chips based on Arm CPU core designs. In other words, the cancellation wouldn't mean that Qualcomm couldn't produce any Arm chips at all, just Arm chips with its own in-house CPU core designs.

Qualcomm’s recent Snapdragon Summit was a major showcase for the company’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite system-on-a-chip, which includes Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU, but the good vibes are souring wit | Analyst say Arm may be looking to force a settlement before the two companies meet in court on Dec.