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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by int_19h on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:50PM (#19067931)
It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment.
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by wolfgke on Sunday February 03, 2019 @05:24PM (#19072629)
> It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment.

I am no expert on this, but my personal impression is that projects of this kind slowly try to migrate towards RISC-V.

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