> Thus far, the company has not given a reason for the closure of the MIPS Open Initiative - nor explained why it has opted to do so with immediate effect, rather than giving those who had begun building around the architecture fair warning of its plans<p>It is disappointing when a company won't publicly explain the reasons behind its decisions. It doesn't impress.
They were a decade too late with their initiative.<p>And Mips-Imagination as a commercial entity was braindead. Look for stories of them responding to sales calls after 1+ month.<p>Execution was below the sea level.<p>I can say the same of many other "Big Semi" that went nowhere in the last 5 years. They all had underperforming C-suites stuffed with overfed big name executives.
Lasted less than a year. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701145" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701145</a>
In addition to the fully open ISAs listed in the article (OpenSPARC and RISC-V) the POWER ISA (of PowerPC origin) is also fully open. This is a somewhat recent development.