20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
7:30 p.m.
On 20/02/12 1:26 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 20 February 2012 06:39,<emu at e-bbes.com>
wrote:
Tilera*
http://www.tilera.com/products/processors
What's the status of Sun's CoolThreads/Niagara? Fujitsu?
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterprise/tec…
What happened to Transmeta's technology?
And is XMOS going anywhere?
http://www.xmos.com/technology/architecture
http://www.xmos.com/technology/xcore
--Toby
Zitat von David Griffith<dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu>:
It's more than just research.
China has the Godson and Longson chips, which are MIPS. There are
entire machines using them - such as most of the ~?80 "netbooks"
running WinCE that you can get, or Richard Stallman's all-free laptop.
In the higher end, there are the TileEra 32-core and 64-core CPUs. This reminds me of the depressing trend of a
mostly-converged CPU
monoculture. Just about everything is x86/amd64 with the exception of
tablets and phones which often use ARM. What became of MIPS?
Don't write off MIPS that fast. A lot of new embedded Designs are MIPS
based,
a lot of research (china!) goes into the MIPS architecture.
MIPS is undergoing a bit of resurgence.
Meanwhile, ARM is doing great as well - the high-end ARMs are *very*
performance-competitive with low-power-draw x86 parts such as Atom or
Via Eden. There's a *lot* of interest in ARM at the moment, especially
things like Raspberry Pi.