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I don't see them as competitive with ARM and RISC-V.

The last I heard of MIPS was some Chinese-fabbed chip that used the unencumbered set of MIPS opcodes--probably MIPS II--and a mostly-GNU OS to build the only computer on Earth (at the time) completely free of patent or licensing restrictions. It sounded like a stunt then, and I haven't heard anything about it since, so it probably was.

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MIPS and RISC-V are very, very similar. Makes sense if you realize that they modified MIPS and started adding opcode space and features from there. Essentially, RISC-V is a modern do-over of MIPS, just with variable length instructions, floating point, and new opcode space and extensions.

I think rms famously used one of those. Lemote Yeelong with the Loongson CPU.

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