MIPS

It's royalty free and open source, isn't it? So how could it ever be kill? There will always be applications for a truly free chip.

MIPS has been dead for more than a decade

>>56136757
>It's royalty free and open source

Haha, no.

>tfw can't find a Lemote Yeeloong
>tfw even harder to find their mini ITX motherboard
I just want a modern MIPS machine that isn't an SBC

Mips is now owned by a chinese company and sells most of their chips in china for phones there. They have the full backing of the chink government and are selling chips like fucking hotcakes to a fat bitches.

They'll be alright

>>56136757
I'm pretty sure the only CPU arch that fits that description is RISC-V, and that's not even out yet I believe.

>>56136849
>Mips is now owned by a chinese company

No, it's owned by Imagination Technologies Ltd (ImgTec), which is based in the U.K.

Yeah, it's basically dead for new applications.
Any modern wins of MIPS will basically be confined to Russian and Chinese state/military purposes where they still haven't heard of RISC-V.

>>56136849
No it's not.

What will they do when Apple eventually drops them or squeezes them so hard they make nothing from iDevices.

No one likes working with them, they won't even provide linux drivers to companies that bought SoCs with their GPUs through official channels. Odroid shipped an exynos based SBC with an imgtec gpu, Imgtec even posted about it on their website boasting 3d performance and openCL, I don't know what happened but the drivers never came and the company that makes the odroids now hates imgtec and won't touch a SoC with their GPUs ever again.

>>56137636
Link to the Odroid hating Imgtec story?

>>56138075
The imgtec article is still up.
https://imgtec.com/blog/hardkernel-releases-odroid-xu-development-board-with-a-powervr-sgx544mp3-gpu/

The odroid devs never said what the issue was due to NDA but linux drivers were not possible after many months of work. While devices with mali were no problem.

If I had to guess imgtec gave them binary blobs with poor documentation and they were to broken to be used for anything. They probably refused to give them source access even under NDA or fix the drivers themselves. I think someone hacked the android driver to get some 3d but it basically left their flagship SBC unable to do 3d in linux despite imgtec promising opengl and opencl.

>>56136853
OpenCores has close implementations.