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Home routers used to be one of the last holdouts of MIPS, but all the modern ones have been switching to ARM. It's pretty much on its last legs there aside from
by makomk 6y ago
Home routers used to be one of the last holdouts of MIPS, but all the modern ones have been switching to ARM. It's pretty much on its last legs there aside from the really cheap, low-end stuff.
- dfox 6y agoIt is not that way today but for a long time the entry-level Cisco IOS router was PowerPC based, while the highend was invariably MIPS. On the other hand both architectural choices had nothing to do with the architecture and everything to do with choice of usable SoCs for that particular application (with Motorola/Freescale/NXP's "m68k Cisco router/Sun2 on a chip" SoCs being somewhat ironic in this regard).
- genmud 6y agoI wouldn't consider cisco to be a tech-forward company or look to them as the barometer to where the networking industry is headed. Most of Broadcoms stuff is ARM based now, which is what most folks are putting in white label switches.
- bnjms 6y agoFwiw, Broadcom is also what’s going into Cisco routers. Which supports your point.