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Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by devereaux on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:52PM (#20090297)
I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more.

Eventually, something that is not licensed from a western company (or which can't be protected by IP law) but that is fast enough for most uses will also become a $0.10 afterthought.

The mips24k is remarkable in that you can comfortably run a linux kernel with a lot of userland utilities and even text mode software -- just what we used to run on Linux computers many years ago!

Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by metildaa on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:23PM (#20098853)
MIPS is a product of Wave Designs in California. We're years away from a non-western influenced CPU being commercially available.