Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More

Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by saagarjha on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:32PM (#22951321)

A number of others you might encounter in your embedded devices: 68k, AVR, Z80. (CISC, RISC, CISC, if you’re curious.)

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by wk_end on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:59PM (#22951459)

There’s (sadly) not that much 68k left these days, is there? Do you know of any specific companies still using them? (maybe ones that are hiring? :)

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by p_l on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:22AM (#22953336)

AST2500 (popular as BMC chip) has ColdFire coprocessor, TALOS2 and Blackbird (truly open source POWER9 workstations) use it (used?) to bit bang one of the protocols necessary to start up the CPUs

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by t0mas88 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:28AM (#22956380)

I wrote a lot of code for it 12 years ago in embedded programming. It was already getting less popular back then so I guess you're right. Haven't seen one in forever.

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by kn0where on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:04AM (#22952980)

I think either Airbus or Boeing (or both?) use them in some of their planes (A320 and/or 737)

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by wolfgke on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @08:08PM (#22951503)

In terms of hardware: NXP ColdFire.

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Re:Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving an... by zozbot234 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @08:27PM (#22951617)

The Apollo Vampire is a newly-designed implementation on FPGA's that compares very favorably wrt. performance with existing 68k (and ColdFire) hardware.

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