DELAWARE: Qualcomm’s central processors are properly licenced under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a trial in US federal court that removed some, but not all, uncertainty around the mobile chipmaker’s expansion into the laptop market.

The jury delivered its decision Friday in an industry-defining licensing battle that started over a $50 million royalty dispute.

Friday's jury's verdict found that Qualcomm did not violate the terms of its agreement with Arm when incorporating the acquired technology into its chips without paying