Future CPUs - 128 threads

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Feb 12 01:27:51 UTC 2010


Artem Belevich wrote:
>> Seriously, simply because of curiosity - are MIPS CPUs used in any
>> kind of "general purpose" machines?
> 
> I'm not aware of any multi-core general-purpose MIPS box.
> Low-end MIPS CPUs are ubiquitous in low-end networking gear.
> High-end multicore MIPS chips are mostly going into mid-to-high end
> networking gear like firewalls.


However several companies are using FreeBSD as a base kernel for their
appliance, based on these chips.
So they are of direct interest to us.

> 
> They are probably not a very good fit for general purpose computing.
> 
> --Artem
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