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Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Before anyone gets too excited, they're going to use RISC-V for watches and such (Wear OS), but it's still a big step towards having Android phones use RISC-V and major adoption. Maybe RISC-V is closer than we thought!

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[-] hagelslager@feddit.nl 30 points 1 year ago

If I understand this correctly, this is an open source processor architecture?

[-] nephs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It is.

[-] Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

It used to live in shadow of arm until the China ban came up. They funnel the money into riscv which lead to itsquick rise

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's not that, it was nvidia almost buying arm which scared everyone shitless.

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