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Qualcomm will launch RISC-V architecture smart wearable chip that can run Google Wear OS

Update time : 2023-10-25 14:26:57

According to Reuters, Qualcomm, a major mobile processor manufacturer, announced on the 17th that, on the basis of its long-term cooperation with Google, it will launch a smart wearable chip that supports the RISC-V architecture of the Wear OS system (based on Android), and will be commercially promoted in the global market. The two sides will also continue to invest in Qualcomm's RISC-V Snapdragon Wear platform, and Qualcomm will also become a smart wearable chip supplier in the Wear OS ecosystem.

For Google and Qualcomm, the upcoming launch of the new RISC-V smart wearable chip is the first attempt at the commercial RISC-V Android project, and it is also the first RISC-V Android chip ever announced for the consumer mass market. But this is not the first time a Qualcomm product has involved the RISC-V architecture. At the Global RISC-V Summit late last year, Manju Varma, Qualcomm's director of product management, called Arm a "legacy architecture" and said that in legacy architecture, the features introduced did not really add value to the end consumer. With RISC-V, there is an opportunity to define chip designs with "best-in-class performance, best power efficiency and value-added features."
Based on this, Qualcomm applied RISC-V to microcontrollers in its Snapdragon 865 SoC in 2019, and shipped 650 million RISC-V cores by the end of last year. Qualcomm has also recently launched new projects to promote the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE). At present, chips based on Arm architecture occupy a monopoly position in the mobile market. Thanks to the advantages of streamlined instructions, modularity, scalability, and open source, the RISC-V architecture poses a considerable threat to the Arm CPU that currently dominates the smartphone market. Especially at the beginning of this year, when Google announced that the Android system officially supports RISC-V and plans to make it a first-tier platform on an equal footing with Arm, the blueprint for RISC-V in the mobile market gradually emerged.

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