He makes clear that Android will treat RISC-V as a high-priority architecture, right on par with the current standard used by almost every phone, ARMv8.

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.

ARM has unveiled its first line of CPU designs that are exclusively 64-bit, and this could change the Android phone landscape.