HIGHLIGHTS:
- Qualcomm and Google are to expand their collaboration in order to bring a new RISC-V based Wearable platform to Wear OS by Google.
- The companies will continue to invest in the Snapdragon Wear platform as the leading smartwatch silicon manufacturer for the Wear OS ecosystem.
- RISC-V encourages innovation by allowing companies to develop completely custom cores.
Qualcomm along with Google are expanding their collaboration on wearables by developing a RISC-V Snapdragon Wear platform, which is going to power next-gen Wear OS solutions. As announced yesterday, Qualcomm technologies has taken a step forward to build up their long-term collaboration with Google by introducing a RISC-V based wearables solution using Wear OS by Google.
This extended framework will certainly help pave the way for more products within the ecosystem to take advantage of low-power and high-performance custom CPUs. Going forward, the companies will continue to invest in the Snapdragon Wear platform as the leading smartwatch silicon manufacturer for the Wear OS ecosystem.
Bjorn Kilburn, GM of Wear OS by Google said, “Qualcomm Technologies has been a pillar of the Wear OS ecosystem, providing high performance, low power systems for many of our OEM partners. We are excited to extend our work with Qualcomm Technologies and bring a RISC-V wearable solution to market”.
Whereas Dino Bekis, the Vice president and general manager, of Wearables and Mixed Signal Solutions, at Qualcomm Technologies, states, “We are excited to leverage RISC-V and expand our Snapdragon Wear platform as a leading silicon provider for Wear OS. Our Snapdragon Wear platform innovations will help the Wear OS ecosystem rapidly evolve and streamline new device launches globally”.
Furthermore, both companies have just joined other industry leaders in the market in order to launch the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) and Qualcomm Technologies has recently made an announcement that it’s going to invest in a new company to advance RISC-V hardware development.
Being an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), RISC-V encourages innovation by allowing any company to develop a fully custom core. As a result, more companies enter the marketplace, creating increased innovation and competition. In contrast, this acceptance, flexibility, and scalability of RISC-V is beneficial for the entire value chain, from silicon vendors to OEMs, end devices, and consumers.
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