Source: Sipeed
Sipeed tweeted a short but meaningful video. It showed a mobile device running Android 10. This is something that may seem normal, but the truth is that it is something extraordinary, since it was not running on the Arm architecture, but instead used a RISC-V based chip.
This company, if all goes well, intends to launch the first models of this prototype in 2022. On that date we would have the first mobiles RISC-V RV64. Although it is still early to see the market flooded with models of tablets and smartphones with this architecture, but this news already means laying the first stone towards a promising future.
RISC-V 64bit chip (C910) run Android 10 ~
RV64 phone will come next year ~ pic.twitter.com/qc7ubSd2DW- Sipeed (@SipeedIO) November 8, 2021
Some time ago, the Chinese Alibaba managed to run Android on RISC-V. That was a year ago, with the chip-based T-Head XuanTie board with this ISA. Now, Sipeed goes one step further, and has managed to use Android 10 on this mobile device with 7 ″ touch screen, also using a XuanTie C901 board, and although the appearance seems a bit rough compared to modern smartphones, it is only a prototype.
The chip they include would endow them with a performance even better than some mobile devices with quad-core ARM Cortex A-73 chips, which is not bad at all. That is, they would be similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 or 663 as rumored. At the moment not much more is known, and he is not very sure that in 2022, given the shortage of chips, they will be able to launch it for sale ...
Finally, I would like to emphasize that, although this mobile device does not reach large masses, it is important that it exists so that many developers begin to port your apps to this architecture and make the ecosystem increasingly rich. Remember that no matter how good an ISA is, without available software it will not be successful.