(08-15-2025, 06:20 PM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Even worse, they announced that they want to focus instead on RISC-V stuff (uh, come back when this delivers even remotely the same performance at the same price as ARM) and AI (ewww, no thanks, just no!).
For now yes, but relying on the whole NDA.legal mess of relying on the ARM ecosystem is why there are almost no fully FOSS mobile devices. Even gadgets like Nokia N900 and Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 were encumbered with a fixed kernel version and closed blob drivers for those devices.
RISC-V means we have full control of our CPU design, it still needs accessory hardware which openly publishes the required information to write open drivers, then we can actually have devices which fully respect and serve the owner/purchaser and not the seller, OS author, or carrier((edit) and those drivers can be kernel upgraded forever for any OS).
(EDIT) It is interesting there is an AI optimized computing core included in the custom fabed Rockchip RK3399S CPU.
