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.
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.
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sir_reginald@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
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.world · 12 pts · 2y
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.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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?