Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license

AIUI they (were) stopped by the end of 2023.

Their proposal got no support from any vendor, and was also rejected[0] by the board of directors.

They were shown they were wrong, and thoroughly educated on the matter by other members. SiFive even made a presentation[1] about it.

RISC-V has long moved on from that incident. RVA23 was ratified. Multiple vendors have announced IP implementing RVA23.

0. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/topic/rvi_bod_decisi...

1. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/353/0/RIS...

I am already dreaming of the day I'll play AAA games on my RISC-V workstation (on a linux based OS, probably without ELF binaries anymore though).

Or have a RISC-V smart phone, with my own linux based OS.