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AMD or Intel could beat others to the punch and make a mobile SoC with RISC-V applications cores. They'd be the first to face the pain of porting Dalvik and ND
by wyldfire 8y ago
AMD or Intel could beat others to the punch and make a mobile SoC with RISC-V applications cores. They'd be the first to face the pain of porting Dalvik and NDK apps, but in the end they'd be way out ahead of the competition.
- phkahler 8y agoI've just been assuming Google would bring Dalvik to RISC-V. They're already porting Go and some other things. If they were to release Android for RISC-V it could be devastating to ARM. Not that I think Google cares about ARM, they've been enjoying competition among SoC designers due to ARMs reasonable licensing (that's a relative term of course).
- wyldfire 8y agoI meant the more abstract pain of introducing the new ISA and probably taking blame for problems with functionality and performance. Yes, Google would probably be the ones executing this task.
- imtringued 8y agoDoes Google force developers to upload an IR or bytecode for the NDK so that they can just recompile for a new architecture?