Qualcomm announces joint establishment of RISC-V development company, clear sense of distance with Arm
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Qualcomm, in collaboration with four European technology companies and automotive parts manufacturers, has decided to establish a new company that develops products that use the open source architecture ' RISC-V ', which is expected to be a rival to Arm. Announced.
Leading Semiconductor Industry Players Join Forces to Accelerate RISC-V | Qualcomm
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/08/leading-semiconductor-industry-players-join-forces-to-accelerate
Qualcomm—one of Arm's biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/qualcomm-one-of-arms-biggest-customers-starts-a-risc-v-joint-venture/
Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard - Bloomberg
In a press release dated August 4, 2023, Qualcomm announced a joint venture with German auto parts maker Robert Bosch GmbH, industrial semiconductor giant Infineon Technologies AG, Norwegian semiconductor company Nordic Semiconductor, and Dutch semiconductor company NXP Semiconductors. announced that it will invest in a company that aims to develop next-generation hardware and promote RISC-V globally.
The new company, which will be founded in Germany, has not yet been named, but Qualcomm aims to 'accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The focus of the first product. is automotive, but will eventually expand to include mobile and IoT.'
Overseas media Bloomberg pointed out that at the root of this initiative is ``the world's chip makers are concerned about excessive reliance on Arm, which is owned by Softbank.''
In addition, Qualcomm is working on the Snapdragon series of Arm core-equipped SoCs that are used in many mobile devices, and is counted as one of Arm's largest customers, but in 2022 Arm will violate the license agreement with Qualcomm. There are also rifts between the two companies, such as
In addition, Qualcomm reported in its financial report for the third quarter of 2023 that sales of chips for mobile terminals decreased by 25% from the same period last year, and that it is considering a plan to reduce personnel. There is also a view that the company is embarking on securing a new earnings pillar from the start.
Ars Technica, an IT news site, said, ``Manufacturers may be able to avoid Arm's fees by adopting the open source license RISC-V.In addition, RISC-V is becoming an unstable hardware partner. It's also a way to protect yourself from certain Arm problems,' he said, saying that the focus on RISC-V is a sign of risk aversion.
RISC-V was developed at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, but the RISC-V Foundation moved its headquarters to Switzerland in November 2019 due to concerns about the US-China trade war, and the brand name was also influenced by American politics. It has been changed to 'RISC-V International', which indicates that it will not receive As a result, Ars Technica points out that Chinese high-tech companies, Arm's largest market, are shifting their focus to RISC-V.
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