MIPS processor

Imagination이 주도하는 MIPS에 Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom이 조인한다는 뉴스입니다. MIPS가 ARM보다 ultra low-power에 더 좋은걸까요? 아니면 한쪽으로 쏠림방지를 위한 Plan B or C 정도로 다리하나 걸치려는 걸까요?

Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom firms join MIPS open-source push

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steve bush

 

11th May 2015

 

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Qualcomm Atheros, Lantiq (part of Intel) and Broadcom have appointed representatives to the board of the Prpl (‘purple’) Foundation, organisation set-up by Imagination Technologies to support open-source software on the MIPS architecture. 

At the same time, CUPP Computing, Elliptic Technologies, Imperas Software, Kernkonzept and Seltech joined the foundation at lower levels. 

“Newcomers to the prpl Foundation’s board of directors will participate at the executive level and appoint representatives to the technical steering committee and to engineering groups including the security, prplWrt, and QEMU (quick emulator) engineering groups”, said the Foundation.

Prpl, is open to other architectures, and focusses on “datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualised architectures”, it said. Initial domains onm its hit list are: datacenter, networking, storage, connected consumer, embedded and IoT. 

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