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Ingenic an Loongson both have architecture licenses and so far have kept releasing new chips with their own cores on a regular basis, including (in Loongson's case) some interesting enhancements. Both are also members in the RISC-V foundation already though, so it seems likely they would in the long run pivot their instruction sets to that, like others have done before them: Andes, C-Sky, Cortus, Cobham-Gaisler, NVIDIA, and presumably many more all keep supporting old products based on their previous designs while doing new development on RISC-V.

CIP-United still promises to provide enhanced versions of the both the architecture and the MIPS Warrior cores for the Chinese market, regardless of what happens to MIPS Technologies. This may seem utterly futile now, but it is also the very thing that the US Committee on Foreign Investment was trying to prevent when it required MIPS to be spun out of Imagination Technologies when that got sold to Chinese investors.



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