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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 129 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

A risky move... Or should I say... A RISCV move...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

"risc architecture is gonna change everything"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Year of the riscv desktop

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

year of the linux riscv desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's a quote from a film

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It really did.

FYI, ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

And before that "Acorn RISC Machines".

We had Acorn Archimedes systems at school that ran RISC OS.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It actually did, but not in a way people expected at the time that movie was made. It changed a lot underneath the hood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Hack the planet!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

For a firm that already have their own core designs that simply use the ARM instruction set, it might be easier to adapt to RISC-V. For a firm that licenses ARM cores on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

You should say that, yes, very hopefully much so.