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Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

EEE or are my fears misplaced?

Qualcomm has single handedly held back mainstream ARM performance for a while now IMO, with pretty much all their chips being embarrassingly slow when compared to something like the M1... A bit like how Intel stagnated with core counts until Ryzen came along and broke open the floodgates

I'm concerned that by QC possibly adopting RISC, everyone else will be somewhat forced to adopt their flavor or whatever proprietary instruction set extensions they choose to implement as the potential market leader, and if they choose to patent those then we end up with another duopoly type situation