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Are you sure MIPS is only used in crap routers? For example https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ this is
by chx 11y ago
Are you sure MIPS is only used in crap routers? For example https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ this is MIPS as documented for example https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3 here. Also, one of the first 802.11ac Wave 2 routers from Xirrus, that's also MIPS, isn't it? http://www.wireless-mag.com/News/34108/xirrus-selects-cavium-octeon-iii-processors-for-80211ac-wave-2-wi-fi-.aspx http://www.wireless-mag.com/News/34108/xirrus-selects-cavium...
- kenz0r 11y agoMIPS (Cavium and Broadcom) and PowerPC (Freescale QorIQ) are big players in the Networking market currently, but the next generation of processors from those companies mentioned above will be ARMv8
- justincormack 11y agoCavium is still producing MIPS64 as well as ARM64, although whether they will continue to do so is unclear.
- gsnedders 11y agoMIPS is still a big player in the TV market, and similar devices (DVD, BluRay players etc.).