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MIPS’ past may prove problematic but its connection with RISC remains the same, albeit under new management.
The interesting and rather checkered history of MIPS continues. Most recently, MIPS has announced the development of an 8
th generation architecture based on the RISC-V platform.
MIPS has a long history that doesn’t need to be covered here. So instead, let’s focus on the more recent past when MIPS was bought by Imagination in 2013.
Four years later, a China-backed Canyon Bridge bought Imagination. However, the US government opposed the sale of MIPS to the Chinese company, so MIPS was sold to Diosdado Banatao, a veteran of the chip and semiconductor industries.