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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by kernal on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:43PM (#41928059)
Since I don't see the Android or IOS app stores ever switching to RISC-V I think ARM will be fine.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by Tostino on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:24PM (#41928475)
Why would you think that? The Play store already supports x86 binaries when necessary.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by kernal on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:36AM (#41936598)
Because an extremely low percentage of apps support x86.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by kllrnohj on Sunday November 03, 2024 @09:05AM (#42033129)
An extremely low ship x86 support but a huge number support it already for internal uses. The emulator, for both local and CI, and any host-side tests are all x86. These are extremely common to have for everyone. Big companies love having CI, and small ones love the emulator to avoid needing a ~dozen dev phones for the different API levels and form factors.

But importantly since ARM and RISC-V have the same memory model, unlike x86, then it really is just going to be an extra compilation target for any native libraries and that's about it.

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