MIPS will be open source in the first quarter of 2019

The open source Instruction Set Architecture RISC-V gained widespread attention in 2018, and the industry began to build an ecosystem around the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, which will undoubtedly impact the existing chip industry. Therefore the increasingly marginalized Instruction Set Architecture decided to change. MIPS took its first step.

Wave Computing, which acquired MIPS Technologies in June, announced on Monday that MIPS will open source when the latest core R6 is released in the first quarter of 2019, a move designed to accelerate the adoption of the MIPS instruction set architecture. MIPS is more mature and complete than RISC-V and has proven itself commercially.

Since 2000, MIPS core-based chip shipments have reached 8.5 billion. It includes DSP and SIMD extensions, while RISC-V related extensions are still being worked out and MIPS companion software is more mature. A broad range of customers is sticking with MIPS, including Microchip, Mobileye (now an Intel company), MediaTek, and Denso, Japan’s leading tier one.

MIPS will be open source, how will the chip industry react to the new and more mature instruction set architecture?

Via: EETimes