Alex Pelts wrote:
> Why do you think mips is dying architecture? It holds probably 50% of
> embedded market. I think most of the set top box market is mips, and
> probably 50% of home router/gateway.

ARM/Xscale and now low power Geode/x86ish solutions seem to be
encroaching very heavily into this place.  I would be surprised if 50%
of _new_ designs were still MIPS.  Certainly there is still a lot of
movement of MIPS product, but I think it is almost exclusively at the
low-end, typically systems that are < 500MHz single core MIPS32.  I've
not seen any real movement in the MIPS64 space.

This new product is a higher-end product, and shows some promise.

(MIPS -- or any architecture -- can't hold onto just the low-end --
because eventually process improvements and cost-reductions push
formerly high-end products into the low-end.  So there has to be
innovation and getting into higher-end products is a good way to ensure
that innovation eventually trickles down into the lower end market
segments.)

    -- Garrett
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>>> http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp
>>>
>>> 16 core MIPS CPU, ECC RAM, very low power design.
>>>
>>> or wait for PA Semi and their PowerPC-based PWFficient? :)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>
>> I want one. :-)
>>
>> Just when you think MIPS is a dying architecture, news like this comes
>> out...
>>


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