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What's happening in the world of MIPS?

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Whales:
Traditionally I've seen MIPS have a stronghold in the consumer router market, mainly through Broadcom.  I recall hearing a rumour about this being due to licensing costs being lower than ARM.  That and they don't really have to care about power consumption, the customer pays.

Now I'm seeing some home routers come out using ARM based chipsets, and I'm wondering is MIPS SoCs are losing their financial edge.

Q1: Are there any new MIPS chips coming out?
Q2: Who are still using them?  Any other stronghold markets?

NorthGuy:
Microchip uses MIPS in PIC32. They bought Atmel, which used ARM in their MCU. I think they're about to drop their MIPS line and will rename Atmel SAM chips into PIC32.

legacy:
Probably future MIPS will be found only in Chinese products based on the successors of the Dragon chip. And they will be MIPS64-LE.

kfnight:
It lives on in RISC-V.

legacy:

--- Quote from: kfnight on October 12, 2018, 02:54:06 pm ---It lives on in RISC-V.

--- End quote ---

and in our computer science's books  :D

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