Ventana's cores were 15 instruction wide, massively out of order cores that on paper compete with the application cores in Apple's M series SoCs.
They're a totally different gate count niche than a Cortex-M equivalent.
They're a totally different gate count niche than a Cortex-M equivalent.
Feels kind of unlikely though. Ventana probably ran out of money.
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But switching to RISC-V would shut Qualcomm out from QNX and would limit its Android compatibility. And on the Qualcomm chips that I've seen so far, they're really bought in on both QNX and Android. That's why I think this is probably an aquihire more than a desire to ship Ventana's CPU cores.
More like Neoverse-V3: https://www.ventanamicro.com/technology/risc-v-cpu-ip/
BTW: "Silicon platforms launching in early 2026."
I wonder if this will be delayed due to the acquisition.