Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit was all about bold proclamations, though. Lars Bergstrom, Android's director of engineering, wants RISC-V to be seen as a tier-1 platform" in Android, which would put it on par with Arm. That's a big change from just six months ago. Bergstrom says getting optimized Android builds on RISC-V will take a lot of work" and outlined a roadmap that will take a few years" to come to fruition, but AOSP started to land official RISC-V patches back in September.

Another vote of confidence for RISC-V.