News RISC-V hardware ecosystem gets strong industry support - Qualcomm joins with four other industry players to form Quintauris

[Admin]

Qualcomm and four other semiconductor companies have jointly formed Quintauris, which is dedicated to enabling next-generation RISC-V hardware development.

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[bit_user]

Five semiconductor companies make a new RISC-V company.

Obligatory Voltron reference:

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Also, calling Quintauris sounds like they're planning on holding a firm line on just 5 members.

The basic premise for RISC-V is that any company can take the ISA and make their own CPUs, bypassing the closed ecosystems of Arm, AMD, and Intel.

Wow! Finally got this right!
: D

...but, then, my eyes scanned down to this:

The open-standard or open-source nature of RISC-V makes collaboration between industry players easier

No, it's not "or". So close... maybe next time.
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Qualcomm is invested in the production of Arm architecture-based chips, so it might seem unintuitive for the company to get into RISC-V too.

Except for the not-so-small detail that Qualcomm is embroiled in a massive lawsuit by ARM.

...just gonna tag @PaulAlcorn for that. Maybe clue in Mr. Connatser to this, for future reference.

the other four being Bosch, Infineon, Nordic Semiconductor, and NXP Semiconductors.

So, I'd guess this is an effort to counter China's influence over the RISC-V standards and ecosystem. I think it's interesting no other US-based companies are involved. Intel has been dabbling in RISC-V for years. Plus, there are RISC-V startups like SiFive, Tenstorrent, and others.

 

[purpleduggy]

hoping they can push big money into developing the RISCV mobile app ecosystem on android. as well as RISCV desktop ubuntu/debian. This is what will make their chips worthwhile, regardless of performance. also they should push for flagship ultrahigh end halo riscv phones and not entry level. super fast ram and the fastest nvme storage. Also need massive budget for RISCV desktop PCIe GPU support development with Nvidia/AMD.

 

[bit_user]

hoping they can push big money into developing the RISCV mobile app ecosystem on android. as well as RISCV desktop ubuntu/debian.

Agreed, but this isn't that. From the last paragraph:

"there is also the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE). RISE has the official support of RISC-V International and key industry players such as Google, Intel, Nvidia, and even Qualcomm. While RISE concentrates on software, Quintauris will champion next-generation hardware development."
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Also need massive budget for RISCV desktop PCIe GPU support development with Nvidia/AMD.

Already done. For AMD, at least.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SiFive-Newer-AMD-GPUs-RISC-V
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