特拉华州威尔明顿，10月9日：芯片制造商高通对芯片技术供应商Arm Holdings提起的诉讼将于周五进入陪审团审理阶段，陪审团将裁定Arm是否违反了许可协议，并蓄意破坏高通与Meta Platforms的部分业务往来。
WILMINGTON, Delaware, Oct 9 : A lawsuit by chipmaker Qualcomm against chip technology supplier Arm Holdings will head on Friday to a jury charged with determining if Arm breached licensing agreements and intentionally sabotaged some of Qualcomm's dealings with Meta Platforms.
这场为期五天的审判是两家公司在过去两年中的第二次交锋，凸显了双方商业关系的恶化。2016年软银集团收购Arm的控制权后，Arm从原先授权芯片制造所需技术转向自行销售芯片。此次诉讼的关键在于，高通的Arm计算架构许可协议将持续到2033年，而高通能否最终就Arm架构的新版本达成新的许可条款。
The five-day trial is the second in two years between the companies and highlights the deterioration of their business relationship after SoftBank Group Corp acquired control of Arm in 2016 and Arm shifted from licensing the technology needed to make chips to selling chips of its own. At stake is whether Qualcomm, whose license for Arm's computing architecture runs until 2033, can eventually agree to terms for new versions of Arm's architecture.
高通希望陪审团认定，Arm通过扣留其设计所需的软件补丁和工具，违反了许可协议；同时，Arm还违反了一项旨在确保高通支付价格不超过Arm处理器设计最低价格10%的协议。
Qualcomm wants the jury to find that Arm breached its licensing agreements by withholding software patches and tools for its designs and by violating an agreement that was meant to ensure Qualcomm paid within 10 per cent of the lowest price for Arm's processor designs.
高通还希望陪审团认定，Arm试图通过向彭博社泄露一封2024年的信函来破坏高通与Meta的合作。该信函通知高通称其据称违反了一项关键许可协议。
It also wants the jury to find that Arm tried to torpedo Qualcomm's dealings with Meta by leaking to Bloomberg an Arm letter in 2024 notifying Qualcomm it was allegedly in breach of a key license agreement.
本周，Arm的法律团队试图引导陪审团关注其主张：高通并未因诉讼中的指控而遭受任何损失，而Arm认为此举是双方在争夺许可条款过程中试图施加影响力的手段。本周还举行了一场相关的法官主导审判，以裁定Arm是否在相关条款的谈判中秉持善意，但对此项问题的裁决可能要到周五判决之后才会得出。
Arm's legal team this week tried to focus the jury on its claim that Qualcomm had not suffered any harm from the allegations in its lawsuit, which Arm cast as an attempt to exert leverage as the two fought over licensing terms. A related bench trial also took place this week over whether Arm is negotiating in good faith over those terms, though a decision on that could come well after Friday's verdict.
这场在特拉华州威尔明顿联邦法院进行的审判，与2024年的审判涉及许多相同事件。在2024年的审判中，Arm未能说服陪审团认定高通违反了与Arm的许可协议。两次审判均包括Arm首席执行官Rene Haas和高通首席执行官Cristiano Amon的证词，并由美国地区法官Maryellen Noreika主持。
The trial in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court hinged on many of the same episodes as the 2024 trial in which Arm failed to convince a jury that Qualcomm had breached its licensing agreement with Arm. Both trials included testimony by both Arm CEO Rene Haas and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and were overseen by US District Judge Maryellen Noreika.
高通公司的律师凯伦·邓恩在开场陈述中表示，此案对公司而言非常严重。
Qualcomm's lawyer Karen Dunn said in her opening statement that the case was very serious for the company.
她周一表示：“情况确实很糟糕，因为高通整个芯片业务都依赖于Arm，以及Arm能否遵守合同并履行其承诺。”
"It’s really bad because Qualcomm’s entire chip business depends on Arm and on Arm honoring its contract and honoring its promises," she said on Monday.
高通希望诺雷卡在审判前裁定，许可协议中的某条条款意味着，如果合同遭到违反，高通可以暂停支付五年的版税。但她尚未作出裁决，而Arm则主张该版税惩罚条款无法执行。
Qualcomm wanted Noreika to rule prior to trial that a clause in the licensing agreements meant that Qualcomm could stop paying royalties for five years if the contract were breached. She has not issued her ruling, and Arm has argued the royalty penalty is unenforceable.
Arm的律师格雷格·洛卡斯奇周一对陪审团表示：“他们完全没有受到任何损害。”
"They were not harmed in the least," Arm's attorney Gregg LoCascio told the jury on Monday.