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It's probably not a great long-term plan: such actions are likely to hasten work on RISC-V alternatives at Qualcomm and all the other manufacturers witnessing t
by aurareturn 2y ago
It's probably not a great long-term plan: such actions are likely to hasten work on RISC-V alternatives at Qualcomm and all the other manufacturers witnessing the attempt.
I think any Qualcomm work on RISC-V is mostly for show. It's an empty threat. Qualcomm can't move to RISC-V because they don't have the power to drag an entire industry to optimize software for RISC-V.
- 15155 2y agoIf any industry player has anything resembling this power, it's Qualcomm.
- aurareturn 2y agoI disagree. Qualcomm does not have any pull to make Google to make RISC-V Android a first class citizen. Nor do they have any pull to make Microsoft develop Windows RISC-V. They also don't have a presence in servers so they can't make Linux and server software like Kubernetes/Postgres/Redis/etc. optimize for RISC-V. The actual entities that have this kind of power is Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google and some Chinese tech giants.
- yencabulator 2y ago> Qualcomm does not have any pull to make Google to make RISC-V Android a first class citizen. You can debate what "first class" means, but RISC-V was announced as an official Android platform in 2023, and runs in emulators today: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-off... https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/10/android-and-risc-v-what-you-need-to-know.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/10/android-and-risc-v... https://github.com/google/android-riscv64 https://github.com/google/android-riscv64
- musicale 2y agoApple, Google, and Nvidia have entered the conversation.