Apple and Qualcomm have been trading legal blows for the past couple of years, but it looks like the two companies have now agreed to a settlement.

Apple and Qualcomm have struck an agreement to drop all of their litigation around the world. The deal includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm as well as a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1st, 2019, in which Apple will pay royalties to Qualcomm. That license agreement includes a two-year option to extend. The two companies have also agreed to a multi-year chipset deal.

Way back at the start of 2017, Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm for $1 billion, claiming that Qualcomm used its position as a maker of important cellphone chips to demand "onerous, unreasonable, and costly" patent licensing terms. The two companies proceeded to duke it out over the next couple of years, with Qualcomm scoring recent wins like a ban on the sale of select iPhone models in Germany and a ruling that ordered Apple to pay Qualcomm $31 million in damages.

Rather than continue their legal fight, Apple and Qualcomm have now agreed to settle their fight. Details of the settlement aren't being made public, but it's entirely possible that the chip deal between the two companies will allow Apple to get 5G modems from Qualcomm for 5G iPhones that could come next year or the year after.