Arm bought the lawsuit in 2022 after Qualcomm's 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a startup co-founded by the brains behind Apple's custom processors. Nuvia had signed an architecture license agreement (ALA) with Arm that allowed it to design its own Arm-compatible CPU cores. 

Qualcomm’s latest quarterly financial report revealed that on January 8, 2025, Arm signalled it was no longer pushing to axe the agreement. Confirming the news on Qualcomm’s Q1 2025 earnings call, CEO Cristiano Amon said: “Arm has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement. We're excited to continue to develop performance-leading, world-class products that benefit consumers worldwide, including our incredible Oryon custom CPUs."

Arm isn’t out of the courtroom just yet despite backing off from this fight. In a regulatory filing, the company admitted that both sides had filed post-trial motions to clarify legal issues following the jury’s verdicts—meaning a new trial could still be on the cards. 

Meanwhile, Arm’s CFO Jason Child tried to play down the impact of the case, telling investors the company never expected to win outright and had already assumed Qualcomm would continue paying royalties at existing rates. 

"The primary reason for the lawsuit very much was around defending our IP and that's important,"* Child claimed. 

Qualcomm isn’t letting Arm off the hook so quickly—it's still suing the British firm, accusing it of failing to honour contractual obligations. That case is set to reach the courts in early 2026.