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My guess is that theyve only recently been asked by handset manufacturers to consider non-ARM chips, for example this would be a great way for Qualcomm to gain
by photonbeam 4y ago
My guess is that theyve only recently been asked by handset manufacturers to consider non-ARM chips, for example this would be a great way for Qualcomm to gain leverage over ARM given the recent lawsuit
- kllrnohj 4y agoAndroid has official x86 & x86_64 support and used to have MIPS support back when MIPS still existed, so this isn't the first "not-ARM" support to happen. But the change from ignoring risc-v contributions to saying it's important probably did come from a significant SoC manufacturer pushing for it, yeah.
- packetlost 4y agoI'm aware of at least one Chinese manufacturer building a RISC-V based smartphone
- solarkraft 4y agoOn what timeline? Are there any suitable SoCs yet?
- packetlost 4y agoThis one is what I'm aware of: https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a/ https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a/ Alt: https://linuxgizmos.com/lichee-pi-4a-risc-v-platform-available-for-pre-order/ https://linuxgizmos.com/lichee-pi-4a-risc-v-platform-availab... At the bottom they say they have a tablet and phone planned, though no info on when.
- phh 4y agoAnother possible guess, is that Google wants to start making their own CPU cores to beat Apple (I'm more along your guess, but I've seen so much Pixel-first AOSP development, that I have to doubt)