Qualcomm and Google project will enable more RISC-V Android devices in the future.
  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Android Wear* SoC.

    Even that will take a lot of effort and money, but being Qualcomm and Google I’m sure they’ll pull it off. I’m not sure however how open will these RISC-V processors be, given that Qualcomm could just put their own custom extensions and make them proprietary.

    • SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I don’t think a lot of people understand that RISC-V doesn’t mean every RISC-V SoC is open. It’s only the underlying architecture that’s actually open.

    • Moltz@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, nobody would have clicked on Ron’s title or linked it to social media if he had put Wear in the hed. Isn’t clickbait fun?