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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (34 children)

What's government enforced about it? Is ARM the only allowed chip designer for cellphones?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago (29 children)

Copyrights and patents

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

That's not a government enforced monopoly. A government enforced monopoly means nobody else is allowed in the market. Like utility companies.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

Lots of Utilities are consumer cooperatives which is funnily enough Socialist, but the people working there wouldn't like to hear that.

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