[wyldfire]

> 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.

[Havoc]

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

[wyldfire]

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"