Imagination Technologies company presented the first computing core based on the MIPS recently developed under the code name Warrior . The license for the core MIPS P5600 ( so-called 5-Series) will be provided during the quarter.
MIPS architecture could not get into tablets and smartphones. It was released two or three models of tablet-based SoC architecture MIPS. The story of MIPS as an independent developer is over. In winter, it was acquired by Imagination Technologies. The latter is already under pressure from the graphics cores, ARM. Imagination PowerVR graphics company, together with MIPS cores should help the developer over the next five years to capture about 25% of the global processor market in all its diversity total. This is a serious claim and core MIPS P5600, presented yesterday, should be the first step on this path.
Note core MIPS P5600 - is a 32-bit solutions that can be combined in clusters of up to six cores. However, they are architecturally designed in such a way that in the future will allow an easy transition to the development of products with a 64-bit cores, which will appear in the same 5-Series next year. But now the core MIPS P5600 enable address up to 1TB of memory, because it uses a 40-bit bus. Provided for the MIPS P5600 operating frequency range is 2.1 GHz. As for the comparative performance, in SPECint2000, Linpack, and if you run scripts in Java browsers showed the advantage of MIPS P5600 compared with solutions based on ARM cores in 1.2-2 times. The speed of memory turned up from 2 to 3 times. Also, the developers claim high efficiency of new MIPS, which take on a chip is 30% less space than, for example, the CPU core Samsung Exynos 5 Octa.
From the words of Imagination, new items look just wonderful. There is only one remark. Comparison is with the processors ARM, which began to be developed two and a half or years ago. Related Products :
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