Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
by yalogin on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:16AM
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Moving to a whole new architecture is really really hard, no? The operating systems and applications all need to be ported. Just because Qualcomm cannot be friends with arm, every single Qualcomm customer from google to some custom device manufacturer needs to invest years and millions to move to a new architecture? Unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding this, it seems like something they won’t be able to achieve.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
by dvdkon on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:46AM
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Android already supports RISC-V, so while migrating an SOC to it is not painless (third-party binaries, device-specific drivers...), the hard work of porting the operating system itself to the ISA is done.