I read about the processor over at Semiaccurate
1. This is a very possible potential.
2. I heard they already pay royalty to MIPS so processor import should not be a problem.
3. If they can produce 8 or 16-core setup
4. Then licensed, adapt and tuned the old IRIX to run on new generation hardware.
5. There could be a market potential for such configuration
The processor itself is not faster than x86, so the potential more likely in ,multiprocess-multi-threading environment. To compete in Linux market also makes little sense due to x86 orientation from all the top tiers. However, the old SGI IRIX nostalgic maybe could see a resurrection in combination with ATI/nVidia GPU.
1. This is a very possible potential.
2. I heard they already pay royalty to MIPS so processor import should not be a problem.
3. If they can produce 8 or 16-core setup
4. Then licensed, adapt and tuned the old IRIX to run on new generation hardware.
5. There could be a market potential for such configuration
The processor itself is not faster than x86, so the potential more likely in ,multiprocess-multi-threading environment. To compete in Linux market also makes little sense due to x86 orientation from all the top tiers. However, the old SGI IRIX nostalgic maybe could see a resurrection in combination with ATI/nVidia GPU.