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  • Findecanor - Sunday, June 17, 2018 - link

    MIPS has a long and proud history. If it had been managed better it might have been competing well with ARM by now.
    Good to see that it has a home after Imagination.
  • ws3 - Sunday, June 17, 2018 - link

    It’s just another of the casualties of the Itanic.
    The only reason ARM avoided the same fate is that ARM chips were thought to be “small” and therefore not in the same league, and therefore no threat. Every other RISC architecture apart from Power was cast aside for the fools dream that was Itanium.
  • mode_13h - Monday, June 18, 2018 - link

    Didn't MIPS have a fairly strong foothold in the embedded space - notably telecoms?
  • fteoath64 - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link

    Yep, until SDN comes in with x86 being the most cost effective. There are some custom telecom serial chips with MIPS cores but not updated as often. Dying domain for MIPS I think.

    Let us hope MIPS put some serious ML blocks and get more mileage with their architecture. We can all reminscient those huge SGI systems with large MIPS processors of bygone years ...
  • mode_13h - Monday, June 18, 2018 - link

    BTW, I'm pretty sure x86 had a lot more to do with MIPS demise than Itanium. SGI was already onboard the x86 train, even before Itanium saw the light of day. And x86 certainly had a lot more to do with the demise of SPARC than Itanium ever did.
  • strtj - Monday, June 18, 2018 - link

    SGI was onboard the Windows NT4 train, which was perhaps not the worst of ideas but was misguided. What do you do when suddenly your graphics technology has matured to the point that real people want to use it at a reasonable cost?
    But honestly, Itanium was a horrible noose around the neck of HP and SGI for its entire life, which started at about the same time as the awful NT workstations. This was much earlier than people remember, probably because it shipped so late. The architecture was an interesting idea, it turned out it didn't work, and it sank MIPS and HPPA with it.

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