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Why is anyone doing a new mips cpu, given the similarities between mips and risc-v? Why not do risc-v like everyone else? (Cynically: Oh....).

• woadwarrior01 5y ago
  From the wikipedia page for it[1]: The Register reported in November 2021 the suspicion that LoongArch combines the best parts of MIPS and RISC-V, along with custom instructions. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch
• chenzhekl 5y ago
  Their chips "Loongson" appeared long before RISC-V is a thing in 2002, when MIPS is still widely used in the embeddeed world. I guess they just do not want to drop the experience accumulated in developing their previous chips.
  • rurban 5y ago
    and avoid the US backdoors into their military computers of course.
    • avianes 5y ago
      RISC-V is an open and royalty free ISA, it can't really be backdoored. And several Chinese companies are working on RISC-V implementation
• anotherhue 5y ago
  'silicon security' is probably as important as energy security.