←back to thread

GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

(mips.com)
224 points mshockwave | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
musicale ◴[09 Jul 25 07:26 UTC] No.44507186[source]▶
MIPS seems like a story of missed (mipsed?) opportunities. If MIPS had really been (or remained) an open architecture, there would have been little need for RISC-V. They had a decade+ head start in terms of tool support and silicon implementation, compressed/16-bit instruction formats, full 64-bit instruction sets, and scaling from embedded systems to HPC.
replies(1): >>44508810 #
1. bobmcnamara ◴[09 Jul 25 11:45 UTC] No.44508810[source]▶
That whacky multiplier setup though. Who could've ever foreseen that bottleneck.