Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?

Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by soapdog on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:16AM (#19460736)

ARM has those things but MIPS, once this process is completed, will be open source. This makes a difference regarding license pay.

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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by justincormack on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:28AM (#19460789)

Also you can modify the instruction set, which you cannot do with Arm. Risc-V has a detailed model of which bits you can change,what is the common core and so on, which Mips will need too.

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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by Vogtinator on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:05AM (#19461708)

ARM has vendor extension space as well. Intel used that for DSP and "Wireless MMX" in their Xscale CPUs.

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Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V? by JoachimS on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:32AM (#19461893)

Depending on what the license actually will be. ARM has for example presented "free" cores to fight against RISC-V. Free as in slightly cheaper beer.

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/arm-responds-to-risc-v-threat-...

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