Comment by eigenform

Yeah, I did a double-take when I read that too - but that does seem to be the case. From a different article [^1]:

> "Throughout expert testimony, Arm has been asserting that all Arm-compliant CPUs are derivatives of the Arm instruction set architecture (ISA)."

> "Arm countered with an examination of the similarities in the register-transfer language (RTL) code, which is used in the design of integrated circuits, of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite processors, the pre-acquisition Nuvia Phoenix processor, and the Arm ISA (commonly referred to as the Arm Arm)."

Were they trying to argue that the RTL is too similar to the pseudocode in the ARM ARM or something?? That is absolutely crazy. (Of course, [when we have a license agreement and] you publish a public specification for the interface, I am going to use it to implement the interface. What do you expect me to do, implement the ARM ISA without looking at the spec?)

edit: Wow, I guess this really is what they were arguing?? Look at the points from Gerard's testimony [^2]. That is absolutely crazy.

[^1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2024/12/19/arm-s...

[^2]: https://www.tantraanalyst.com/ta/qualcomm-vs-arm-trial-day-2...