Silicon Valley-based Wave Computing said on Tuesday that it will introduce two new microprocessor designs this year using the RISC-V architecture as its once-popular MIPS architecture is on the verge of becoming obsolete. The move adds momentum to RISC-V, an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA), an emerging competitor to the proprietary architecture of British Arm, a semiconductor technology company owned by SoftBank Group Corp. The growing popularity of the nascent RISC-V is largely due to its free and open standards. It also has the potential to help China build its own semiconductor industry, as Chinese companies developing technology based on the architecture may not be subject to U.S. export controls. Wave’s MIPS architecture was developed in the lab of Stanford University professor John Hennessy for 35 years. However, it has fallen behind the Arm architecture that dominates mobile chips, and x86, originally developed by Intel Corp., which dominates laptop and data center chips. After being owned by a series of companies, MIPS was acquired by Wave, which started .
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