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There will still be US suppliers who want riscv android, so google will still do it. China could still design their own riscv chips and run AOSP without google,
by photonbeam 3y ago
There will still be US suppliers who want riscv android, so google will still do it.
China could still design their own riscv chips and run AOSP without google, so it wouldn’t change much
- londons_explore 3y agoBut without Google making all the app ecosystem support RISC-V, I suspect any RISC-V phone would have a chicken and egg problem - with no apps available, no user would want to run it. Google is in a unique position to solve that by making the toolchain automatically compile for RISC-V as well, and in a matter of months most apps will support it.
- miohtama 3y agoGoogle is in unique position, because they are a company with a track record delivering software in massive ecosystem scale. Non-US companies like Samsung, Nokia, and every Chinese company, cannot write quality software, based on the 25 years of track record. This is why they all depend on Google for Android. This has been discussed earlier on HN why is this and it comes down to corporate culture and such matters.