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CTOnews.com, May 22 (Xinhua) according to the Financial Times, chip designer ARM has recently adjusted its licensing policy, which may adversely affect some chipmakers and even threaten the rumored partnership between MediaTek and Nvidia. It is reported that MediaTek and Nvidia are plotting to develop a chip with a new GPU.

ARM's current licensing policy is to collect royalties from manufacturers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek that use their CPU designs based on the average price of the chip and the license fee. However, in the future, ARM will add a small but important change to this policy: if ARM grants permission to a partner's Cortex CPU, the partner will not be able to use other components such as GPU, ISP, NPU, and modems.

But companies like Apple and Samsung that have their own CPU designs and custom chips such as GPU, ISP, NPU and modems will not be affected by the policy change because they have their own agreements with ARM. However, other companies do not have such an advantage.

Twitter user @ RGcloudS analyzed the impact of the new licensing policy in a series of tweets. He believes that in addition to the cooperation between MediaTek and Nvidia, the policy change could also prevent Qualcomm from launching a Snapdragon chip with a custom Oryon kernel based on technology from Nuvia acquired by Qualcomm. To avoid this, Qualcomm and MediaTek need to register themselves as equipment manufacturers and set up their own factories, he said. But ARM knows that this is risky for both chipmakers and believes they will not take this move, but will accept the new change.

It is unclear whether ARM will sue Qualcomm as a result of the policy shift, and CTOnews.com will continue to monitor the progress.

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