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GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

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228 points mshockwave | 4 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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alephnerd ◴[08 Jul 25 17:32 UTC] No.44502181[source]▶
Interesting but complementary foray into owning the end-to-end pipeline of chip design, fabrication, and packaging - especially for embedded use cases.

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.

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kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 17:43 UTC] No.44502288[source]▶
The critical mass of talent and capital forming in the RISC-V space happened in 02019 at Alibaba: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/07/27/alibaba-unveils-xuan...

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.

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1. hulitu ◴[08 Jul 25 19:59 UTC] No.44503499[source]▶
> AFAIK MIPS still hasn't shipped a high-end processor competitive with the XuanTie 910 that article is about

The last high end MIPS was in the SGI times, 30 years ago.

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2. kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 20:12 UTC] No.44503625[source]▶
Yes, but their claims over the last few years have been that their RISC-V implementations will be super fast, not like all those pikers, because they're using MIPS microarchitectural techniques. And so far I haven't seen them ship anything that substantiates that.
3. chasil ◴[09 Jul 25 01:13 UTC] No.44505447[source]▶
Loongson was making them until recently.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/loongson_inspur_cloud...

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4. kragen ◴[09 Jul 25 02:10 UTC] No.44505744[source]▶
Yes, but MIPS wasn't.