Seeing loss of two licensees, Arm sues them

It’s been a rough year for Arm. The much-anticipated acquisition of Arm by Nvidia, a plan despised by everyone except SoftBank and Nvidia, got canceled. Arm’s long-standing CEO quit. Then the company laid off over 1,000 people. Then SoftBank canceled the IPO for Arm; RISC-V was replacing Arm in more and more places every day, signaling dozens of licensees would not be renewed; and then two big licensees announced one would acquire the other. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone. Qualcomm announced in March 2021 that it was going to acquire Nuvia. The company was founded in 2018 by three