SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by mmastrac on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:13AM (#30258572)

Google maintains two parallel Android platforms right now, so the idea of porting everything over to a third is not _too_ far off. There's a lot of effort in getting JIT up-to-speed on RISC, but most everything else is a recompile away.

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Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by klelatti on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:25AM (#30258717)

I’m old enough to remember Intel throwing billions at getting x86 into smartphones.

Just because there is a port available doesn’t mean the hardware and ecosystem will follow.

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Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by unfocussed_mike on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:40AM (#30259690)

Whether it'll make it into a phone is a whole other matter, but there has been at least one RISC-V port of AOSP:

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-risc-v-port/

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Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by monocasa on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:23AM (#30258698)

And JIT can come in later. But definition it's making runtime decisions on code generation, so being supported by optional extensions isn't the end of the world.

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