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Although I am excited, I wonder why they went for a licenced soc design. Perhaps I am overestimating the current capabilities of riscv. Nonetheless, I do hope that the future of Linux phones will include open source soc architectures
RiscV is nowhere near ARM designs in the mobile space. And as they noted, they are a small player and need to use off the shelf components.