> And why did Qualcomm pay all that money for Ventana recently? You do not expect them to release high-end RISC-V chips? I mean, they already ship many low-end ones.
Ventana is an extremely bad example to be used here. It is acquisition price is undisclosed, it could be just some $ for acquiring the team behind it. Secondly, Qualcomm's nuvia acquisition was pretty huge, there is no reason whatsoever to believe the Ventana acquisition is remotely comparable, that proves no one uses RISC-V anyway.
I notice that the three benefits they flag for RISC-V are: flexibility, control, and visibility.
I wonder how they felt about "control" after ARM tried to stop them from commercializing the value of their Nuvia acquisition? I wonder if it had anything to do with their next big acquisition being RISC-V based instead?
I also wonder, why on their Oryon page does Qualcomm never meanion ARM. Not even once. Even to the question, is Oryon x86, they do not answer that it is ARM. Why not?
Ventana is an extremely bad example to be used here. It is acquisition price is undisclosed, it could be just some $ for acquiring the team behind it. Secondly, Qualcomm's nuvia acquisition was pretty huge, there is no reason whatsoever to believe the Ventana acquisition is remotely comparable, that proves no one uses RISC-V anyway.