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There is an old saying if you can´t beat them, you sue them. There is an ongoing litigation between the two American companies. Qualcomm proceeded to sue the Cupertino-based company and alleged Apple violated a software license contract to benefit rival chipmaker, Intel Corp for making broadband modems.
According to Reutersreport, “Qualcomm said in a lawsuit filed in California state court in San Diego on Wednesday that Apple used its commercial leverage to demand unprecedented access to the chipmaker´s highly confidential software, including the source code.”
Apple has yet to release comment. The above report also confirmed that the tech giant started using Intel´s broadband modem chips on the iPhone 7.
The lawsuit filed by Qualcomm claimed Apple was required under the contractual agreement could not share or communicate specific details about the Qualcomm chips. In addition, Apple was not allowed to disclose the specific details about Qualcomm chips to Apple engineers who working on competing chips from Intel, conforming to the report.