Please read carefully.
It is supposedly a one-off deal, not a continuous licensing deal like Arm's. They are prepared to sell everything including lock, stock and barrel. And I read somewhere they are prepared to help to set up a research division for the US company too. If this whole thing ever comes to pass, utter stupidity is the word.
It doesn't really matter as the majority of the juicy 5g bids have already happen or is happening now. For a company to buy the 5g patents now, it would take at least 2-3 years to get a product out. By that time, Huawei would of already gone thru various iterations and be technical far ahead anyways. Patents I believe are only good for 20 years and I am thinking these patents are already 5-10 year old anyways. Telco hardware ends up becoming a commodity and everyone ends up betting on lowest price at a certain point.
Huawei has a perpetual license for ARM at a certain board release/reversion