MIPS Introduces Aptiv Generation Cores

http://microcontroller.com/news/MIPS_Aptiv_Cores.asp

They look impressive  and compete with ARM nicely.

Article includes a roadmap comparison and power dissipation figures.

Bill Giovino
http://Microcontroller.com

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:24:59 AM UTC-7, Bill Giovino wrote:
> http://microcontroller.com/news/MIPS_Aptiv_Cores.asp
> 
> They look impressive  and compete with ARM nicely.
> 
> Article includes a roadmap comparison and power dissipation figures.

I'm an ARM user and I hope MIPS does very well with these new cores.  Healthy competition is good for us all.

On Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:24:59 AM UTC+12, Bill Giovino wrote:
> 
> They look impressive  and compete with ARM nicely.

Great, so where do I buy some ? 

If you claim they "compete with ARM nicely", there must be someone shipping them ?

On 24/05/2012 02:21, j.m.granville@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:24:59 AM UTC+12, Bill Giovino wrote:
>>
>> They look impressive  and compete with ARM nicely.
>
> Great, so where do I buy some ?
>
> If you claim they "compete with ARM nicely", there must be someone
> shipping them ?

You buy them the same way you buy ARM cores - you contact the supplier, 
make your agreement for multiple millions of dollars, and get sent some 
VHDL files.

If you want to buy ready-made chips with MIPS Aptiv on board, you'll 
have to wait a while.  And even then, you might not be able to - many of 
MIPS' traditional customers sell devices only in huge MOQs.