Google recently announced, at its Android Developers Forum, the latest update to their NDK. This was a fulfilment of Amit Rohatgi’s promise that Google would be adding the MIPS ABI into the Android NDK. Amit Rohatgi is MIPS Mobile Architect and, in the light of recent MIPS developments, he promised that MIPS wi... |
4 May 2012
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China’s high ranking representatives gathered at a top level meeting last month at their Ministry of Industry and IT to discuss ideas and initiatives regarding their own National CPU Architecture. For those less familiar with processor design, the first thing on the table is the decision on the ISA. ISA is s... |
27 April 2012
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Reportedly, Ingenic has just signed a license agreement with Vivante to pair up the former company’s power MIPS CPUs with the latter’s new efficient GPUs. You’ll probably remember that late last year, the first Android 4 tablet was actually powered by a MIPS processor and not by an ARM one. MIPS h... |
25 April 2012
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MIPS Technologies doesn't get much direct attention from the media, but they have been successful regardless, having managed to power almost two million of all tablets shipped until today. According to Amit Rohatagi, principal architect for MIPS Technologies, the number of MIPS-based slates sold in China by the... |
19 April 2012
10:22 GMT |
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While some might have never heard of it, MIPS stands for “Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages” and is a RISC type of processor architecture, just like AMD’s or Intel’s x86 CPUs are. It is not something radically different and hard to develop and to develop for, like Intel&rsquo... |
18 April 2012
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MIPS Technologies has already launched world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet about two weeks ago. The 7-inch tablet costs only $99 (75 EUR) and is delivered from China via Ainol Electronics.
Those who are interested in having an Ice Cream Sandwich as early as possible can give MIPS’ slate a try, ... |
21 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Those who cannot afford any of the recently discounted $200 (150 EUR) tablets will be happy to know that MIPS has just announced the first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, which will be available for purchase for under $100 (75 EUR). Although the tablet is now out in Japan, the company confirmed plans to bring the sla... |
5 December 2011
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eSilicon Corporation together with MIPS Technologies have just announced that the two companies have taped out a high-performance, three-way microprocessor cluster built using Globalfoundries low-power 28nm-SLP process technology.According to the press release sent out by the two partners, wafers are currently runnin... |
11 October 2011
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In the second quarter of this year, Chinese scientists were expected to tape out the first version of the Loongson 2H microprocessor, but this process has now been delayed by several months for unspecified reasons.
This information was provided by Professor Yunji Chen from the Institute of Computing Technology of ... |
4 August 2011
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After being confined to the server and embedded market space for quite some time now, China's Loongson processors based on the MIPS architecture will soon make their way into the consumer market, as the first notebooks to be powered by these chips are expected to enter mass production in August.A prototype of th... |
22 June 2011
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Over the course of the last few years, China has been making great efforts trying to develop its own CPUs and it now seems like ICT, the institute behind the development of the Loongson chips, is finally getting ready to tape out the Loongson 2H SoC that is destined to be used in mobile devices.The processor is also ... |
29 April 2011
14:51 GMT |
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In an attempt to gain back some market share from ARM Holdings, MIPS has just announced that the company plans to launch at least two 64-bit synthesizable cores this fall and that both chips will support multithreading and issue multiple instructions per clock cycle.
Dubbed Prodgy, this new family of processors is... |
28 March 2011
06:11 GMT |
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