Qualcomm has a long history of being a patent license nazi, demanding exorbitant license fees, Arm does not. So I have no doubt which side I believe more in this.
This definitely smells of Qualcomm being cheap. It’s got to be so bad that Arm has finally had enough. Wild.
Now that you mention it, this is probably the first time ARM has licensing issue ever.
Sounds like Qualcomm finally got a taste of FAFO
Just in case there are others who suffer a brain fart like me, who had to look it up:
FAFO = Fuck Around & Find Out.
I’m not a huge fan of Qualcomm as a company, but what the hell will be in my next flagship phone I’m planning to buy next summer? Some weird chinese chipset? Or crappy Google CPU?
Dimensity 9400 is spectacular. the 9300 was very good too, but the new 9400 is amazing. It fully matches Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
It even beats it narrowly on battery, which used to be the strongest point of Snapdragon over Dimensity.https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-4-vs-mediatek-dimensity-9400
MediaTek 9400 fits within 10% of Snapdragon 8 Elite, so if you don’t intend to load a custom ROM, I’d say there are options.
I’m never on stock ROM. That’s the problem