MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

I remember seeing a lot of wifi routers using MIPS architecture..

Did they all move onto using Arm these days or is RISC-V gaining traction there too these days?

Global Foundries just bought MIPS, so perhaps there is life in the old architecture yet.

https://gf.com/gf-press-release/globalfoundries-to-acquire-m...

Edit: the article starts with the above press release.

It spends substantial time on the Nintendo 64, but not much on the "Emotion Engine" of the Sony PS2 (which was a more advanced MIPS CPU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Engine

There was some design oddness that plagued early MIPS and SPARC that future architectures avoided.

https://www.jwhitham.org/2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-hav...

One place where everyone saw the work of MIPS was the original movie Jurassic Park, on an SGI Crimson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Crimson

The original article points out that MIPS (the company) no longer designs chips using MIPS (the architecture).