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Android is not fragmented, it is easy to write applications that run well on all android versions. The problem RISC-V faces is that one or more companies start
by afiori 6y ago
Android is not fragmented, it is easy to write applications that run well on all android versions. The problem RISC-V faces is that one or more companies start to grow a significant market with non-compliant chips, basically the browser war scenario.
- pjmlp 6y agoSaid the one that never had to deal with background activities or firmware issues across the eco-system.
- afiori 6y agoyep, that is me, I thought that the main issues were around deprecated features in newer API versions, I guess I was wrong.
- avianes 6y ago> The problem RISC-V faces is that one or more companies start to grow a significant market with non-compliant chips, basically the browser war scenario. The CPU market today is even more closed to competition than web browsers. RISC-V does not "face this problem", this problem already existed before RISC-V. But RISC-V could make this market more competitive. If there is a royalty free standard on top of which all modern CPUs are built (the RISC-V ISA), then a newcomer can easily use it and take advantage of the tools which go with it. But companies remain free to diverge from this standard by adding their own non-standard extensions.