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"Development of the MIPS processor architecture has now stopped"

Is anyone still developing SPARC?



Fujitsu for general purpose servers, and Atmel (maybe others too?) for rad-hardened Sparc.


> Atmel

Microchip these days, Atmel got acquired few years back..

The packaging looks cool of those https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/AT697F


That's how it's packaged prior to trimming and lead forming, which looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CfEN5R13w4


That is an interesting look. There's an 8 bit ATMEGA like that too: https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATmegaS128

I wonder what that form factor with the chip suspended like that actually does for it.


Given that Fujitsu has jumped ship to ARM for their supercomputers I wonder if they'll be doing so with their other hardware as well?


Gaisler and the ESA are launching SPARC into space.

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/components/gr740


They are using risc-v for their 64-bit cores now.


The context was not "Who isn't using RISC-V?" It was whether anyone is using SPARC. The reality: they're not mutually exclusive. They offer both, contrary to the implied subtext of your comment that there has been a transition from SPARC to RISC-V.


No one worth mentioning AFAIK.




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