RV needs an ecosystem to survive. Google can afford the hockey-stick dev costs, but 95% of the rest of OEMs cannot. Hopefully Google makes their tooling open source, that would really help shave years of RV adoption.
Related/dupe from earlier today:<p><i>Snapdragon X Series chips are heading to PCs to take on Apple's processors</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899676">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899676</a><p><i>Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37919907">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37919907</a>
In my opinion, all the RISC-V showing lately from Qualcomm is related to their Nuvia acquisition and the ensuing lawsuit with ARM regarding licensing Nuvia core designs. Qualcomm is most likely doing this to put pressure on ARM.<p>If/when the lawsuit is finished, I expect Qualcomm is deprioritize RISC-V projects.
I want to ask this ignorant question<p>Other than being OS, cheaper... For the consumer do they need to know that it's risc v? Would a laptop instead of saying "Intel" or "ryzen" it would say risc v on the sticker... Otherwise it's still windows or ChromeOS?
Speaking of RISC-V. Earlier today I was thinking that I’d like to buy a desktop machine with a RISC-V CPU and came across one that seems aimed at computationally demanding stuff: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/milk-v/milk-v-pioneer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.crowdsupply.com/milk-v/milk-v-pioneer</a><p>Anyone had any experiences with the company behind MILK-V?<p>Seems nice. Would like to order.