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Comment by londons_explore

I forsee RISC-V ports of Android rapidly gathering speed...

Ports of Android 12 are already running on dev boards. Most of the work was done by Alibaba, and Google has just agreed to merge it into AOSP, making RISC-V a supported Android platform.

If they do, all that's needed is a good compat layer that can emulate ARM for app compatibility, and the app ecosystem to be updated to compile all the native code to RISC-V for new apps too. Intel tried and mostly failed at this step, with Googles help, so it's a tough task.

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