MIPS has also hitched it's horse to RISC-V now, and I am seeing a critical mass of talent and capital forming in that space.
AFAIK MIPS still hasn't shipped a high-end processor competitive with the XuanTie 910 that article is about. And I think the billions of RISC-V microcontroller cores that have shipped already (10 billion as of 02022 according to https://wccftech.com/x86-arm-rival-risc-v-architecture-ships...) are also mostly not from MIPS.
At least the Long Now Foundation stuff comes with that context built-in.
https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...
Lots of companies had their own mips implementation, but still might use an implementation from mips-the-company because even if you have your own team, you probably don't want to implement every core size that you might need. But then for some reason lots of them switched to using ARM, within a few years (in some cases getting an architecture licence and keeping their CPU team).
It seems like RV has a more stable structure, as the foundation doesn't licence cores, so even if one or two of the implementors die it won't necessarily reflect on the viability of the ecosystem
Frankly, something about that leading 0 makes me grit my teeth and stop reading. I can't explain why it affects me like that. Perhaps I'm the only one who does, although threads like this seem to pop up whenever they post so I don't think so. If HN had a mute button, I'd probably use it just because it annoys me to that level.
Edit: And now that we're talking about it, they seem to have the need to mention a specific year way more than most, as though deliberately looking for opportunities to draw attention to themselves. Oof. That just made it about 10x more grating to me.
I think the C910 looks better on paper than it performs in practice. I hope that isn't the case for MIPS.
That is a frustrating pattern in the RISC-V world. Many companies that boast having x wide cores with y SPECint numbers but nothing that has been independently verified.
I don't believe I'm actually doing those people any injury, so while they're obviously free to continue requesting different formatting of my posts, I'm free to ignore them.
I think it's important for people to be able to complain about things that bother them, for the reasons described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501817. In that thread, we were discussing a different commenter requesting that an author please not use AI for editing his own books, although the request was made in a particularly obnoxious fashion. Consider "Please don't play your music so loud at night", "Please don't look at my sister", or "Please don't throw your trash out your car window". But "please format your dates differently" doesn't seem like a very important request, even if it were phrased politely, to the point that it makes me (and, as I've seen, others) think less of the people who are making it.
If my date formatting really bothers them, they're free to stop reading the site. After having looked at their comment histories, I wish some of them would, because the only thing they ever post are similarly vacuous complaints. If people had to choose between reading a site where I posted and they didn't, and a site where they posted and I didn't, 100% of people would choose the former. (Others do occasionally post something worthwhile, but nothing that inspires me to wonder how I could earn their admiration.)
So, these days, I can easily ignore it.
Especially the day after this comment of mine got voted up to +151: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491713
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/loongson_inspur_cloud...
Do you have any examples? Apple Silicon cores took pieces of the pwerficient cores, and everything else I know of either tweaked an official ARM design or started more or less from scratch.
This was stronger before you edited in the longer paragraphs telling us that you look through their comment histories.
Look, you do you, but I'd rather hear your passionate promotion of the leading zero approach since you apparently know it irritates people.
Edit: PS Isn't it interesting that the comment that you are justly proud of doesn't have any dates in it? :)
http://textfiles.com/occult/MOOISM/
I have some retro-reading to do.
You want to burn your initial capital on lawyers? This is MIPS we're talking about.
Generally the comments I'm proud of tend to have more dates rather than less dates, because often they either provide verifiable information about things that have happened in the past at specific times, or cite specific sources, including the publication date. I think comments like that are more valuable than comments that simply take a position or state a complaint.
Consider, for example, this overview of the historical development of delay slots in RISC architectures https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503609, or this discussion of what GlobalFoundries' prospects for developing a 7nm node really were when they abandoned it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503245, or this summary of the causes for the antibacterial properties of honey and the evidence for its astounding shelf-stability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495658, or this brief history of the ideology of pre-Satoshi cryptocurrencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44471683.
These are all within the last week. I'm pleased with how each of those comments came out, and, although the last one went relatively unnoticed (probably because it was deep in a contentious thread), all of the others were very well received.
However, presumably not by the sort of people who are more interested in how other people format their comments than they are in biochemistry, archaeology, or computer architecture. Which is fine with me. Different people have different interests, and some people evidently have a very strong interest in how other people format their dates, and don't have much to contribute on topics like computer architecture. Possibly this isn't the right site for them, and if so, they'll figure that out sooner or later, and go criticize other people's comment formatting elsewhere.
Sooner, I hope, because I'm really not interested in their opinions.
I don't know the details of how much rework they had to do.
As I understand it cavium still sells processors but only directly to hyperscalers.
Ironically Cavium may have gone through the same process with their previous design, but given that they then acquired this one from broadcom, perhaps it didn't go very well! I have no concrete information though.