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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by h2odragon on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:04AM (#37022737)
Yeah, "Qualcomm" is one of those places information never gets out of, right? This might turn out to be "influenced by RISC-V" but completely different actual instructions; with the NDA and lien on your soul before you can even sniff documentation .
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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by bogwog on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:07PM (#37024138)
Qualcomm is a patent troll. They probably already have a few dozen over-broad patents on things crucial for RISC-V implementations and are just fishing for more.
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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by snvzz on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:50AM (#37088669)
They (alongside every other member) signed an agreement with the RISC-V consortium that limits them on what funny business they can do.
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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by pgeorgi on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:10PM (#37024191)
RISC-V is the ISA plus some auxiliary specs. A CPU, and even more so a SoC, contains enough other stuff that Qualcomm can torment their partners (and their lawyers) with. And of course they will do that.
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