[nrclark]

Fully agree - Ventana's cores are more like Cortex A76 kinds of things, and are on a completely different scale from typical Cortex-M cores.

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.

[camel-cdr]

> Ventana's cores are more like Cortex A76 kinds of things

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.

[snvzz]

Doubtful. To have silicon in early 2026 would mean tapeout happened months ago.

[wbl]

Porting QNX would be very possible.