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First RISC-V smartphones could launch in 2022 [notebookcheck.net]

Sipeed recently tweeted a short video depicting its RISC-V RV64-powered smartphone prototype running Android 10. If all goes well, the Chinese company expects to release the first commercial models in 2022.

[...] The flexibility and ease of development brought on by the latest iterations of the RISC-V ISA have also been noticed by Intel [notebookcheck.net] and Apple [notebookcheck.net] recently, but this architecture seems more appealing to Chinese tech producers that intend to cut ties with the Western world and reduce reliance on US-owned patents as much as possible. To this effect, Alibaba already managed to port Android 10 on RISC-V about a year ago via the T-Head XuanTie board. More recently, Sipeed tweeted a video of what looks to be an Android 10 device with a 7-inch touchscreen powered by the XuanTie C901 board.

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