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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:So they were still alive? by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Chinese are actively developing and manufacturing MIPS processors, it's what they use in many of their supercomputing clusters. I got myself one of the new 4-core Loongson laptops, so it's definitely alive and well.

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  2. Virtually any assembly is better than x86 by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which has turned into a complete dogs dinner in the last couple of decades first with the FPU stack based instructions being glued to a register based architecture then all the endless psuedo parallel long word instruction sets intel have thrown at their cpus like confetti. Its long been said that compilers make a better job of generating assembler than a human, but these days I doubt if a human could even grok the entire x86 instruction set to start with. I gave up long ago.

  3. The early days of MIPS by sootman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fun (if you're into that sort of thing) discussion of the early days of MIPS at the Computer History Museum in 2011. http://www.computerhistory.org/events/video/?videoid=3paiCK3dlK0

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