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Imagination and ARM buy MIPS
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Jon
Nov 6, 2012, 11:18:39 AM11/6/12
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Quadibloc
Nov 9, 2012, 2:01:19 AM11/9/12
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The gist of the story seems to be that Imagination bought MIPS, and
ARM threw in some money to make it more affordable for Imagination in
return for solving all patent issues from that quarter.
John Savard
ARM threw in some money to make it more affordable for Imagination in
return for solving all patent issues from that quarter.
John Savard
Tim McCaffrey
Nov 9, 2012, 9:29:06 AM11/9/12
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In article
<5be08772-dc68-4cfa...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
jsa...@ecn.ab.ca says...
Well, we haven't heard from Andy Glew, but the news reports claim Imagination
wants to keeps MIPS going. Lets hope so, I rather like that ISA (not that it
couldn't be better :) ).
- Tim
<5be08772-dc68-4cfa...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
jsa...@ecn.ab.ca says...
wants to keeps MIPS going. Lets hope so, I rather like that ISA (not that it
couldn't be better :) ).
- Tim
Quadibloc
Nov 10, 2012, 3:13:40 AM11/10/12
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On Nov 9, 7:30 am, timcaff...@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) wrote:
> In article
> <5be08772-dc68-4cfa-8ede-65eecf1e0...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca says...
> >The gist of the story seems to be that Imagination bought MIPS, and
> >ARM threw in some money to make it more affordable for Imagination in
> >return for solving all patent issues from that quarter.
familiar with the MIPS architecture myself, but the fact that it was
used as the basis of the chips used in the Cray X1 speaks well of it,
as does the fact that there were versions of both Windows CE and
Windows NT made for the MIPS..
John Savard
> In article
> <5be08772-dc68-4cfa-8ede-65eecf1e0...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca says...
> >The gist of the story seems to be that Imagination bought MIPS, and
> >ARM threw in some money to make it more affordable for Imagination in
> >return for solving all patent issues from that quarter.
> Well, we haven't heard from Andy Glew, but the news reports claim Imagination
> wants to keeps MIPS going. Lets hope so, I rather like that ISA (not that it
> couldn't be better :) ).
Yes, I saw this as well in the story I read; I'm not particularly
> wants to keeps MIPS going. Lets hope so, I rather like that ISA (not that it
> couldn't be better :) ).
familiar with the MIPS architecture myself, but the fact that it was
used as the basis of the chips used in the Cray X1 speaks well of it,
as does the fact that there were versions of both Windows CE and
Windows NT made for the MIPS..
John Savard
Mark Thorson
Nov 10, 2012, 6:26:17 PM11/10/12
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Quadibloc wrote:
>
> Yes, I saw this as well in the story I read; I'm not particularly
> familiar with the MIPS architecture myself, but the fact that it was
> used as the basis of the chips used in the Cray X1 speaks well of it,
> as does the fact that there were versions of both Windows CE and
> Windows NT made for the MIPS..
China uses it, too.
>
> Yes, I saw this as well in the story I read; I'm not particularly
> familiar with the MIPS architecture myself, but the fact that it was
> used as the basis of the chips used in the Cray X1 speaks well of it,
> as does the fact that there were versions of both Windows CE and
> Windows NT made for the MIPS..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
Rumored to be the processor in their
most advanced homing torpedo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-6_torpedo
Jon
Nov 21, 2012, 11:02:42 AM11/21/12
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Not done yet - CEVA (Israeli DSP company) has made an offer.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4401892/DSP-firm-Ceva-bids-for-MIPS
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4401892/DSP-firm-Ceva-bids-for-MIPS
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