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Android can also run just fine on MIPS processors, and there are MIPS options available which are competitive with the offerings from ARM. And of course it has
by pjscott 16y ago
Android can also run just fine on MIPS processors, and there are MIPS options available which are competitive with the offerings from ARM. And of course it has been ported to Intel's Atom processor.
Windows only really runs on x86 these days, but the Linux-based Android OS is not so encumbered.
- recoil 16y agoIs the MIPS architecture still seeing continuing development the way ARM is? After Sony stopped using them with the PS3, I stopped paying attention and had begun to write them off.
- pmarin 16y agoThe chinese processor Loongson [1] uses the MIPS instruction set and it is used in some netbooks (Stallman is using one of those netbooks as his main computer) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
- tryp 16y agoWhile it's certainly true that android is happy to run on mips, there is currently a Renaissance of arm-based SOCs with interesting silicon coming from freescale, ti, marvell, phillips, qualcom, and samsung to name just a few. Most of these have thier own combination of differentiators like video codecs, signal processing cores, and analog interfaces. I see mips running mostly in set top boxes that use the discreet codec/drm devices and routers with external 802.11 radios and switches, and some network-centric processors... but there doesn't seem to be nearly the level of diversity present in the arm ecosystem lately. I hope that android's architecture agnosticism allows more payoff on investments in other interesting architectures like mips, sh, and openrisc.