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Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

considering Qualcomm is the biggest obstruction to getting longer term updates for android, I don't think I'll jump on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you share a link or explain further? I've had no idea but don't pay all that much attention to mobile in general.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There is a quick Google search where Qualcomm only guarantees 3 years of major OS upgrades and 4 years of security patches. There is articles where Fairhope blames Qualcomm as the largest barrier to long term update support. Understand that google supports their own chipset that they design and lease the manufacturing with samsung for tensor. used to be Qualcomm for the first 4 generations as google tried to customize Qualcomm's offerings to suit their needs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Riscv byQualcomm yeah I'm sure they'll release all those specs for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nah it is not closer than we thought. It is right about time!