Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC
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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.
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.
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?