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To: Paul Jamerson who wrote (449)12/3/1996 10:27:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf   of 14451
 
Total MIPS chip production actually exceeds PowerPC (and Sparc and HP) production. So just who needs to go mainstream?

The reality of it is though, that the high-end systems require capabilities not found (and won't be found for 2 years) in the so called mainstream systems. A with the design-by-MIPS / license-and- fab-by-{NEC, IDT, LSI, et. al.} model, MIPS chip are not (typically) sole sourced, and when a MIP core ends it's useful life as a high-end chip, the fabs houses (and QED or others) respin the cores into lower cost and power versions (cf. Nintendo 64) with continuing revenues streams back to MIPS. This is why SGI won't abandon MIPS, and incidently why a N64 has a 64-bit processor, while nothing from Wintel will until 1998.

As always my opinions are my own.
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