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1. I am fairly sure games and other performance sensitive apps are using the Android NDK which is not available for RISC-V.

2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away.




> 2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away.

And chasing a moving target fueled by the largest technology companies on the planet.


Tying products to Googles ecosystem is usually financially risky. Not a good long-term strategy for startups. =3


I think it is more of a "chicken and egg" ordering problem.

1. The RISC-V design standard fragmentation issue has been addressed.

2. A reasonable mobile class level SoC will be available for integration after any large production run of the chips.

If ARM forces #2 out of silliness, than it also accelerates #1 in the market.

In general, there is plenty of use-cases even if a chip is not cutting edge. =3




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