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by maximusdrex 541 days ago
What a disaster for ARM. Qualcomm building out new chips targeting the pc market should have been a victory lap for ARM, not the source of a legal battle with their largest customer. Now potential customers might be a little more wary of ARMs licensing practices compared to the free RISC-V ISA.
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wyldfire 541 days ago
> Now potential customers might be a little more wary of ARMs licensing practices compared to the free RISC-V ISA.

This is unbelievably understated. If I were Qualcomm, I would put parts of the Nuvia team's expertise to work designing RISC-V applications cores for their various SoC markets.

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Havoc 541 days ago
If you bet the farm on hardware but the software ecosystem isn't there yet, then you sell no hardware and sink the company.

Software ecosystem either takes lots of time (see ARM) or you need to be in a position to force it (Apple & M chips).

RISC-V is still a long way off from consumer (or server) prime time

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wyldfire 540 days ago
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. People won't port their software if there's no popular targets available. Even if there are targets, if the popular targets don't perform well, people will assume the ISA is not worth porting to.

No, it's not just around-the-corner but Qualcomm has a role to play here. Not like they should just sit on the sidelines and say "call me when we are RISC-V"

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