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To: Scumbria who wrote (134854)	5/14/2001 1:28:08 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

MIPS has all but died in anything but embedded computing. They could not keep up with Alpha at one time (were dropped by MS for WinNT support al long time ago because of lack of volume of sales). Subsequently the low/mid end of the server market was also taken away by Intel chips. They then turned their attention to embedded designs where PowerPC and ARM are dominant (I should reverse that order). Their 64 bit designs helped them differentiate themselves from the above two (I believe the Nintendo 64 was a MIPS based design). The requirements of embedded CPUs are completely different from desktop/server requirements, and there is basivally little crossover of individual chips (but not necessarily architectures) between the two camps.