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How long would it take Huawei (or a bunch of Chinese companies) to develop MIPS or RISC-V based phones? Too long to run out of cash (given that their sales for
by dharma1 7y ago
How long would it take Huawei (or a bunch of Chinese companies) to develop MIPS or RISC-V based phones? Too long to run out of cash (given that their sales for the foreseeable future just cratered) - or doable?
- sanxiyn 7y agoI think Huawei can fund RISC-V phone development from their telecommunication equipment business. Their revenue is roughly split half and half between telecom and smartphone.
- dharma1 7y agoyep, I expect their basestations use ARM extensively too. Still, I wonder what the timeline would be for a production ready RISC-V chipset. They might be out of business before it's ready
- Symmetry 7y agoI'd guess on the order of 5 years. Taking silicon from idea to mass production is something that takes a long time and this isn't something that Huawei has done before. EDIT: Apparently Huawei has been developing their own ARM cores via architectural liscence so they might be able to hack together a poor solution in less time than that by sticking with ARM in the short term and they might be able to get a decent MIPS SoC (for pre-existing Android compatibility) working in less time than 5 years.
- sanxiyn 7y agoNot just developing. They did a tapeout.
- Matthias247 7y agoThe CPU is however also only one part of the puzzle, and they need all the peripherals (and especially: Modems!) too.
- sanxiyn 7y agoHuawei has their own modem.