I really don't know a whole heck of a lot about where mips is going. Certainly they remain strong in the embedded market (I do like the edgerouter X a lot), but as for their current direction or future product lines, not a clue.
I used to know someone over there, maybe he's restored new directions. Last I recall he was busy obsoleting a whole lot of instruction space in order to make room for "new stuff". He'd even asked me if adding an invsqrt to the instruction set would help, and I sadly replied that that bit of codel was totally invisible on a trace..... I really like(d) mips. ton of registers, better instruction set than arm (IMHO), no foolish processor extensions. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:26 AM David Collier-Brown <dave...@rogers.com> wrote: > > On 2018-11-28 11:55 a.m., Dave Taht wrote: > > > Thank you for that. I do have a long standing dream of a single chip > > wifi router, with the lowest SNR possible, and the minimum number of > > pins coming off of it. I'd settle for 32MB of (static?) ram on chip as > > that has proven sufficient to date to drive 802.11n.... > > > > which would let you get rid of both the L2 and L1 cache. That said, I > > think the cost of 32MB of on-chip static ram remains a bit high, and > > plugging it into a mips cpu, kind of silly. Someday there will be a case > > to just doing everything on a single chip, but... > > I could see 32MB or more of fast memory on-chip as being attractive when > one is fighting with diminishing returns in CPU speed and program > parallelizability. > > In the past that might have excited MIPS, but these days less so. Maybe > ARM? IBM? > > --dave > > -- > David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify > System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest > dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat -- Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-831-205-9740 _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat