MIPS architecture
Instruction set architecture
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| January 2024 | Loongson won a case over rights to use the MIPS architecture. |
| March 2021 | MIPS announced the end of MIPS architecture development, marking a transition towards RISC-V architecture. |
| July 2020 |
NonStop
Sales of Itanium-based NonStop systems come to an end, marking the conclusion of this particular server architecture's market lifecycle.
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| March 2019 | One version of the MIPS architecture was made available under a royalty-free license, but the program was later shut down. |
| December 2018 | Wave Computing announced the MIPS Open initiative to open-source the MIPS Instruction Set Architecture. |
| 2015 |
NonStop
Hewlett Packard Enterprise assumes ownership of the NonStop server line following the company's split.
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| 2014 |
NonStop
First 'NonStop X' (TNS/X) systems are introduced, based on Intel x86-64 processors, representing another major technological evolution of the server line.
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| 2014 | MIPS32/MIPS64 Release 6 was introduced, adding a new family of branches with no delay slot, index jump instructions, PC-relative load instructions, bit-reversal and byte-alignment instructions, and redefining multiply and divide instructions. |
| January 2011 |
SPIM
Major release of SPIM version 9.0, introducing QtSpim with a new user interface built on the Qt UI framework. The project was moved to SourceForge for better maintenance.
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| January 2010 |
SPIM
SPIM simulator released version 8.0, licensed under the standard BSD license.
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