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AMD to Buy MIPS Processor Startup Alchemy

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AGodspeed

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http://www.eet.com/semi/news/OEG20020129S0024

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to acquire Alchemy Semiconductor Inc. and pit that company's MIPS-based processor architecture against Intel Corp.'s Xscale processors, broadening an already fierce rivalry to the embedded front, sources said.

For those that didn't already know...

MIPS is a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) type of microprocessor (like the PowerPC). I believe Silicon Graph was the company that developed it. Not 100% sure though...
 
Makes sense to me. Embedded processors are so prolific that they represent a nice steady stream of income, provided that ASP's don't go the way of flash...
 
I thought Alchemy was stated by guys who use to work for DEC not MIPS? After Intel bought Alpha last year I figured AMD would grabbed one of the other RISC chip makers since the Athlon is built using a lot of licensed Alpha technology.
 


<< I thought Alchemy was stated by guys who use to work for DEC not MIPS? After Intel bought Alpha last year I figured AMD would grabbed one of the other RISC chip makers since the Athlon is built using a lot of licensed Alpha technology. >>



Good question. It's sorta confusing to me.
 
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