Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
> The result is that Chinese tech companies are rallying around RISC-V as the future chip architecture.That’s really the motivation here. I guess google is trying to stay ahead of being replaced in China?To me, as a westerner, I‘d rather see ARM succeed than RISC-V. Despite ironically being designed in the west, rallying the world around an open instruction set I believe will primarily benefit China, who wants to lead in semiconductors. It gives them the ability to become big players without having to push a new ISA on the world, and if it becomes dominant on mobile, they could see themselves replacing Qualcomm, Intel etc. It is a zero sum game all around.