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posted by martyb on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-just-a-small-RISC dept.

Wave Computing Adopts Low Power MIPS 64-bit Multi-Threaded Core

Wave Computing [...] announced today that it has selected a 64-bit Multi-Threaded processor core from MIPS Technologies for future AI solutions. Wave will use the MIPS core in its next generation of Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) chips that will ship in Wave's future deep learning systems to handle device control functions including management of the real-time operating system (RTOS) and system-on-chip (SoC) subsystem.

From a MIPS press release:

As design complexity and software footprints continue to increase, the 64-bit MIPS architecture is being used in an even broader set of datacenter, connected consumer devices, networking products, and emerging AI applications. In addition to Wave, companies including Mobileye, Fungible, ThinCI, and DENSO, among others, are using the MIPS 64-bit processor core as they develop ground-breaking AI applications. [...] Last August, Denso group company NSITEXE, Inc. announced that it licensed the newest MIPS CPU to drive enhanced in-vehicle electronic processing.

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  • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Friday March 09 2018, @06:57AM (1 child)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Friday March 09 2018, @06:57AM (#649878) Journal

    The CPU insists that those unused bits remain zero (rather than just ignoring them like a 68000), so people wouldn't be tempted to put random garbage in there that would only cause problems in the future.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday March 09 2018, @10:43AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 09 2018, @10:43AM (#649906) Journal
    The CPU does that (except on AArch64 if you set the top-byte-ignore flag), but that doesn't stop people from storing data in the top bits and then clearing them before using the value as a pointer.
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