Thursday, July 15, 2004
MIPS Isn't Dead -- Yet
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
Despite ARM's increasing dominance, MIPS development still continues.
"Nope, MIPS is not dead...now Toshiba is showing off their TX9956CXBG-666 and 555 models (the last three figures stand for the speed in MHz)...the big difference is that these babies are 64bit instead of the usual 32bit."
Admittedly, you won't see MIPS in Pocket PCs or other mainstream PDAs any time soon, since they've all standardized on ARM chips, but MIPS has its applications in embedded Linux solutions, amongst others. I'd love to see performance comparisons between XScale and these new 64-bit (tiny) beasts. ;)
"Nope, MIPS is not dead...now Toshiba is showing off their TX9956CXBG-666 and 555 models (the last three figures stand for the speed in MHz)...the big difference is that these babies are 64bit instead of the usual 32bit."
Admittedly, you won't see MIPS in Pocket PCs or other mainstream PDAs any time soon, since they've all standardized on ARM chips, but MIPS has its applications in embedded Linux solutions, amongst others. I'd love to see performance comparisons between XScale and these new 64-bit (tiny) beasts. ;)
