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Re:Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems by 6SixTy on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:40PM (#46220769)
They are basically acquiring talent and/or preexisting IP. RISC-V is free but implementations are the sole IP of the company.

Implementing ARM and RISC-V decoders might depend on licensing fine print for each licensee

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Re:Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems by Zhyl on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:47PM (#46220866)
This. SiFive, for example, is a proprietory core design based on the open source RISC V spec. Hazard3 [0] on the other hand, is an open source core design.

[0] https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3

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Re:Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems by jrepinc on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:53PM (#46220970)
Another opensource core design is XiangShan https://xiangshan.cc/en/
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Re:Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems by disdi on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:26AM (#46227978)
Another opensource is https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv
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