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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by buescher on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:45PM (#26389773)
"Development of the MIPS processor architecture has now stopped"

Is anyone still developing SPARC?

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by tyingq on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:53PM (#26389882)
Fujitsu for general purpose servers, and Atmel (maybe others too?) for rad-hardened Sparc.
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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by zokier on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:00PM (#26389988)
> Atmel

Microchip these days, Atmel got acquired few years back..

The packaging looks cool of those https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/AT697F

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by Gracana on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:27PM (#26391060)
That's how it's packaged prior to trimming and lead forming, which looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CfEN5R13w4

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by tyingq on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:12PM (#26390151)
That is an interesting look. There's an 8 bit ATMEGA like that too: https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATmegaS128

I wonder what that form factor with the chip suspended like that actually does for it.

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by Symmetry on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:13PM (#26392374)
Given that Fujitsu has jumped ship to ARM for their supercomputers I wonder if they'll be doing so with their other hardware as well?
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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by pwdisswordfish0 on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:44PM (#26390540)
Gaisler and the ESA are launching SPARC into space.

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/components/gr740

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by arnd on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:29PM (#26393652)
They are using risc-v for their 64-bit cores now.
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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by pwdisswordfish0 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:07AM (#26398037)
The context was not "Who isn't using RISC-V?" It was whether anyone is using SPARC. The reality: they're not mutually exclusive. They offer both, contrary to the implied subtext of your comment that there has been a transition from SPARC to RISC-V.
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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by znpy on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:53PM (#26389880)
No one worth mentioning AFAIK.
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