AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS

Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS by woodrowbarlow on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:57PM (#17313122)

MIPS CPUs are still quite popular in embedded applications, although i don't see that lasting much longer. all of the PIC32 line by Microchip uses MIPS32 architecture, and many Broadcom SoCs are MIPSEL, especially their switching silicon.

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Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS by Gracana on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:01PM (#17314863)

I don't understand how Microchip is selling PIC32s. Their errata documents seem to list half the features as non-working, and very little is fixed with each new silicon revision. I like MIPS and I want to like PIC32, but they seem like junk.

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Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS by woodrowbarlow on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:54AM (#17338678)

i'm not sure why you're being downvoted. the PIC32 has serious problems, even as a hobby chip. my biggest gripe is that there's no good way to expand the flash and ram with external chips.

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