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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by giancarlostoro on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:22AM (#21213594)
Great list. Also a reminder of why they call it Silicon Valley after all... Maybe Rwanda will push towards researching making their own chipset. ARM is kind of a spec and not some specific processor is how I have understood it. You take the spec and design your own processor from it.
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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by pnako on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:23AM (#21214833)
>You take the spec

You have to pay license fees :) but yeah that's the idea. SPARC and MIPS are a bit more open actually.

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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by giancarlostoro on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:08AM (#21215355)
I missed that bit, and I didn't think about SPARC / MIPS to be fair. Wasn't there another one recently opened up by IBM? Isn't RISC or RISCV? I only focused on ARM because then you can usually take advantage of Android. I do wish there were competing phone OS' though that were open source as well.
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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by yellowapple on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:23PM (#21228108)
Don't forget RISC-V and POWER.
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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by thatcat on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:29PM (#21217121)
Lol, I don't see any production in Silicon Valley. Most CA production listed is around LA area.
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Re:Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely i... by giancarlostoro on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:46PM (#21217306)
Called it Silicon Valley then, fair enough!
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