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CTOnews.com, October 17, Qualcomm today issued a press release saying that it is working with Google to develop a Snapdragon Wear chip based on RISC-V architecture, which will be used in the next generation of Wear OS watches.

▲ Touyuan Qualcomm website CTOnews.com Note: RISC-V is the third largest CPU architecture after x86 and Arm, after RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond has declared that "as a global standard, RISC-V is not controlled by any single company or country."

Qualcomm plans to commercialize RISC-V-based wearable solutions globally, while RISC-V Snapdragon Wear chips are said to achieve essential elements such as "custom core, low power consumption and high performance" for smartwatches.

Bjorn Kilburn, general manager of Wear OS by Google, said, "Qualcomm has always been the pillar of the Wear OS ecosystem, providing high-performance, low-power systems for many of our OEM partners, and we are pleased to expand our cooperation with Qualcomm and launch RISC-V-based wearable solutions."

It is reported that Qualcomm and Google recently launched the RISC-V Software ecosystem (RISE), which is gradually promoting a series of RISC-V hardware development.

As an open source instruction set architecture (ISA), RISC-V encourages innovation and allows any company to develop a fully customized core.

This enables more companies to enter the market, thus enabling the industry to achieve more innovation and competition.

RISC-V 's openness, flexibility and scalability benefit the entire value chain, from silicon suppliers to OEM, end devices and consumers.

The latest RISC-V chips on the market still lag behind processors based on the flagship Arm architecture in terms of performance and functionality, but the smartwatch announcements from Qualcomm and Google show that the two companies believe that RISC-V chips are ready for wearable devices, while the openness of the RISC-V architecture is also relatively better able to control device costs.

Related reading: "RISC-V responds to closed-source requests from US lawmakers: open standards are important."

Academician Ni Guangnan: RISC-V has become the most popular chip architecture in China.

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