Qualcomm and Google project will enable more RISC-V Android devices in the future.

Before anyone gets too excited, they’re going to use RISC-V for watches and such (Wear OS), but it’s still a big step towards having Android phones use RISC-V and major adoption. Maybe RISC-V is closer than we thought!

  • Stefen AurisEnglish
    20•8 months ago

    considering Qualcomm is the biggest obstruction to getting longer term updates for android, I don’t think I’ll jump on this.

    • Aggy
      2•8 months ago

      Could you share a link or explain further? I’ve had no idea but don’t pay all that much attention to mobile in general.

      • @Acters@lemmy.world
        10•8 months ago

        There is a quick Google search where Qualcomm only guarantees 3 years of major OS upgrades and 4 years of security patches. There is articles where Fairhope blames Qualcomm as the largest barrier to long term update support. Understand that google supports their own chipset that they design and lease the manufacturing with samsung for tensor. used to be Qualcomm for the first 4 generations as google tried to customize Qualcomm’s offerings to suit their needs.

        • ianovic69English
          1•8 months ago

          Sorry I’m not sure if I’m reading this right -

          and lease the manufacturing with Qualcomm.

          Google’s Tensor G3 is made by Samsung using their Exynos stuff, could you explain a little as to why that’s different and also why it has similar update restrictions to Snapdragon?

          I can follow things like who uses which platform, they advertise it at us but don’t go beyond the marketing bs. Anything involving how they effect things like updates is purposely obscured from people like me who are interested but not knowledgeable enough to understand the tech at that level.

          • @Acters@lemmy.world
            2•8 months ago

            Fixed thank you, I know it’s late, I don’t mean to spread misinformation. Got it edited with proper info now