Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Google Explores RISC V For Android Phones!?!" video.

  1. Linux already runs on RISC-V. A different group at Google has been working on its own kernel, called Fuchsia. But so far it seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
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  2.  @underscore.  You mean proprietary apps? Proprietary software comes and proprietary software goes. What lives on is Open Source, and that has already mostly been ported.
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  3. I think also Apple will stick with ARM a while longer, if only because of the sunk-cost fallacy.
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  4. And the current spat between ARM and Qualcomm is not helping matters.
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  5.  @mskiptr  Trouble is, that “stability” has been rocked a bit by the ARM-versus-Qualcomm suit.
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  6. There is the VisionFive 2 from StarFive, which is an SBC very similar to a Raspberry π in price, performance and form factor.
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  7.  @mskiptr  And the question marks over the future ownership of ARM.
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  8. There’s already one or two Raspberry π competitors based on RISC-V, which are very close to it in both price and performance. There’s your “desktop”. Or perhaps more correctly in terms of functionality, your “workstation”.
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