Arm stock declines massively as Qualcomm acquires RISC-V designer Ventana Micro, suggesting plans to deepen its work with the instruction set architecture
  • Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    as much as i love seeing a company embracing risc-v… why did it have to be qualcomm? they’ll just turn it into their own proprietary crap just so they can save money on the arm licenses

      • Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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        2 days ago

        i was thinking of it more in the way of how ARM came to be. they took RISC, built upon and extended it, with the end result being proprietary processors which weren’t RISC anymore.

        i strongly doubt that anything qualcomm will create would contribute to the risc-v ecosystem at a whole. on the other hand, maybe it’s an important step for it’s mass adoption. time will tell