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Imagination Technology Buys MIPS

Posted by Unknown on from the gotta-catch-em-all dept.

New submitter HalWasRight writes "After years of struggle, MIPS Technologies — the original RISC processor company — is being sold to Imagination Technologies, best known for its popular mobile GPUs. Part of the deal included MIPS divesting much of its non-processor related patents to a group that includes ARM. This deal could change the landscape in the battle for mobile sockets." MIPS press release, Imagination press release.

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  1. Re:Virtually any assembly is better than x86 by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks, I didn't realize that the MIPS architecture used the x86 instruction set.

  2. Re:the original RISC? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't call me Shirley!

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