Qualcomm's innovative Snapdragon processors are properly licensed under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a U.S. federal court trial that removed some, but not all, uncertainty around the San Diego-based company's expansion into the laptop market.

Arm's lawsuit against Qualcomm seemingly has failed as the latter was not found guilty of using Arm's tech without a proper license. However, the actual fate between the two companies remains unknown.

Qualcomm's custom Oryon CPU cores are based on the Armv8 instruction set architecture, but they contain only about 1% of actual Arm physical IP, says developer.