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REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
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[โ€“] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, there are differences in certain x86 command sets. But they actually have a market. RISC-V is just a niche, and splintering in a small niche is making the support situation worse.

[โ€“] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

making the support situation worse

The support situation is so bad that both GCC and LLVM have extensive for RISC-V.