財聯社3月27日訊（編輯 馬蘭）Qualcomm has allegedly filed secret lawsuits against Arm with the European Commission, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Commission, accusing the partner of unfair business practices.
Arm sells chips and licenses its instruction sets to customers to help build its hardware and software ecosystem, but it doesn't make its own chips before. However, the company is now developing a custom chip business, and the business is not going well.
Against this backdrop, Qualcomm claims that Arm is restricting Qualcomm's use of its technology and changing its licensing model to help Arm monetize its own chip design business, but this behavior has hurt Qualcomm's competitiveness.
Qualcomm has filed lawsuits with the United States, Europe and South Korea in official documents that are not publicly available. But Arm denied the allegations, saying Qualcomm's move was an attempt to divert public and government attention from the two companies' business dispute and use regulatory pressure to its advantage.
Prior to this, Qualcomm had already had a legal dispute with Arm in Delaware, USA. In the lawsuit, which ended in Qualcomm's favor, Qualcomm successfully refuted Arm's allegation that Qualcomm could use Arm's technology for a chip startup it acquired without a new license.
Qualcomm noted that Arm is doing everything it can to boost its stock price and profits after being acquired by Japan's SoftBank Group. And because of its unique position in the chip design architecture, it is using the behavior of monopolizing the market for personal gain.
Arm隨後對這一審判結果表示不服，希望繼續上訴。但1月底，兩家公司表示將按照法官要求進入調解程式，然後再決定是否重審該案。
還有知情人士則稱，高通在去年12月就向歐盟提起了競爭訴訟，指控Arm限制高通獲得其許可證的途徑並隱瞞關鍵技術，以與高通進行更直接的競爭。據稱Arm已經受到了歐盟的通知，正在準備回應。
Qualcomm emphasized that Arm's previous open licensing model has made many enterprises heavily dependent on its technology. Subsequently, Arm began restricting its own customers from using its technology, a behavior that would jeopardize the chip industry, which is currently thriving.