Qualcomm Technologies says it is building on its long-standing collaboration with Google by bringing a RISC-V-based wearables solution for use with Wear OS by Google. This expanded framework will help reduce time to market for OEMs when launching smartwatches with advanced features like custom cores, low power, and higher performance. Leading up to this, the companies will continue to invest in Snapdragon Wear platforms as the leading smartwatch silicon provider for the Wear OS ecosystem. As an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), RISC-V encourages innovation by allowing any company to develop completely custom cores. This allows more companies to enter the marketplace, which creates increased innovation and competition. RISC-V’s openness, flexibility, and scalability benefit the entire value chain, from silicon vendors to OEMs, end devices, and consumers.