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I believe lots of home routers still use them.

My Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-Lite does. The MIPS CPUs can have hardware offloading for special network stuff, or so I have been told.

Yeah, MIPS was nice with allowing custom instructions to be added to their cores, but with the relatively recent Arm licensing change for Armv8-M that allows something similar I wonder if more will just switch to Arm.

https://hackaday.com/2019/10/23/arm-allows-custom-instructio...

Interesting. But, oh, the comments to that post...!

The most recent router I bought was a dual core ARM. I suspect anything with a Broadcom chipset is going to be ARM these days.

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