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Re:Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs by Havoc on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:58PM (#42477644)
If you bet the farm on hardware but the software ecosystem isn't there yet, then you sell no hardware and sink the company.

Software ecosystem either takes lots of time (see ARM) or you need to be in a position to force it (Apple & M chips).

RISC-V is still a long way off from consumer (or server) prime time

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Re:Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs by wyldfire on Saturday December 21, 2024 @01:24PM (#42481256)
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. People won't port their software if there's no popular targets available. Even if there are targets, if the popular targets don't perform well, people will assume the ISA is not worth porting to.

No, it's not just around-the-corner but Qualcomm has a role to play here. Not like they should just sit on the sidelines and say "call me when we are RISC-V"

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