20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
6:26 p.m.
On 20 February 2012 06:39, <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
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.
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.
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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.