Qualcomm and Google have teamed up on a RISC-V platform for watches.
Qualcomm and Google have teamed up on a RISC-V platform for watches.
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Qualcomm and Google develop RISC-V wearable platform for smart watches

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Qualcomm and Google have partnered to develop a RISC-V wearable solution for use with smart watches based on the Wear OS by Google.

The companies announced an expansion of their partnership to develop the tech based on RISC-V, a relatively new chip architecture based on an open standard in competition with rivals such as the Arm architecture.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.