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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by phkahler on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:13PM (#41921414)
>> 1. Qualcomm develops a chip that competitive in performance to ARM

Done. Qualcomm is currently gunning for Intel.

2. The entire software world is ready to recompile everything for RISC-V

Android phones use a virtual machine which is largely ported already. Linux software is largely already ported.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by djbusby on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:19PM (#41921450)
And with VM tech, and the power of modern devices even some emulator/thunking layer is not too crazy for apps that (somehow) couldn't cross compile.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by IshKebab on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:12AM (#41921749)
2. Except games...

But ARM and RISC-V are relatively similar and it's easy to add custom instructions to RISC-V to make them even more similar if you want so you could definitely do something like Rosetta.

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