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You can hear it from John Hennessey of MIPS fame himself. "We made a mistake. We didn't realise how important the cellphone market was" https://youtu.be/3paiC
by klelatti 6y ago
You can hear it from John Hennessey of MIPS fame himself.
"We made a mistake. We didn't realise how important the cellphone market was"
https://youtu.be/3paiCK3dlK0?t=3016 https://youtu.be/3paiCK3dlK0?t=3016
- noncoml 6y agoVery interesting, thanks. The guy to the right of him is completely in denial. He was so confident MIPS "will win in the end"
- klelatti 6y agoInterestingly, I think Arm has become more MIPs like over the years - dropping some of the features that made it distinctive. In the 'Arm edition' of the Patterson and Hennessey book there is a slightly wistful comment that Arm now looks a lot like the original MIPS - so maybe MIPS has won after all!
- klelatti 6y agoJust to add on a more detailed level I think it was Thumb with its better code density that first got them into (Nokia) cellphones. Also, I think Arm long explicitly avoided competing with Intel which they saw (then) correctly as a losing strategy.