Qualcomm and Google project will enable more RISC-V Android devices in the future.

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!

  • @3arn0wlEnglish
    35•1 year ago

    The Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A coming with Debian pre-installed, is arguably the first consumer RISC-V device.

    Qualcomm has good reason to focus on RISC-V. I’m expecting them to bring out SoCs as soon as they can. And with the Nuvia team, they have the design prowess to produce some very performant silicon.

    • @nephsEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      It is.

    • Never_Sm1leEnglish
      6•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

      • @InverseParallaxEnglish
        9•1 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 year ago

    Aside from furthering the development of the architecture (I assume they are contributing and not just taking), It’s meaningless as Qualcomm couldn’t give two shits about open source chip documentation for the chips they release. I’m only interested in a native Linux phone. Meaning no BSP garbage.

    Yet another example of leeching off of open source and not giving back anything meaningful.