Intel and the Danger of Integration

Re:Intel and the Danger of Integration by wyldfire on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:19AM (#17393062)

AMD or Intel could beat others to the punch and make a mobile SoC with RISC-V applications cores. They'd be the first to face the pain of porting Dalvik and NDK apps, but in the end they'd be way out ahead of the competition.

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Re:Intel and the Danger of Integration by phkahler on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:03PM (#17394360)

I've just been assuming Google would bring Dalvik to RISC-V. They're already porting Go and some other things. If they were to release Android for RISC-V it could be devastating to ARM. Not that I think Google cares about ARM, they've been enjoying competition among SoC designers due to ARMs reasonable licensing (that's a relative term of course).

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Re:Intel and the Danger of Integration by wyldfire on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:17PM (#17394444)

I meant the more abstract pain of introducing the new ISA and probably taking blame for problems with functionality and performance. Yes, Google would probably be the ones executing this task.

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Re:Intel and the Danger of Integration by imtringued on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:25AM (#17399058)

Does Google force developers to upload an IR or bytecode for the NDK so that they can just recompile for a new architecture?

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