Mips Technologies had added virtualisation and 128bit SIMD instructions to its 32 and 64bit architectures, taking them to Release 5, writes Steve Bush.
“SIMD is popular for multi-media,” MIPS product director Mark Throndson told Electronics Weekly. “We have a more modest 32bit implementation of SIMD in our DSP extension. The new one is stronger, it has 128bit words initially and architecture is extendable to be wider in future while maintaining software compatibility.”
