[kdkeyser]

MIPS is still alive in the IP camera world. There exist very cheap SoC's (e.g. the Ingenic T20 - http://www.ingenic.com.cn/en/?product/id/14.html ), tailored towards making cheap network camera's (~ €20 retail price for the full camera). I guess at that price point, the ARM license fee does become visible in the bill of materials.

[exikyut]

Incidentally the Allwinner F1C100s used in this business card (https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026) contains an ARM9 series core clocked at 900MHz alongside 32MB of on-die DDR1, is designed for dashcam-type applications (SDIO, LCD, USB2 OTG, no PHY) and the author of the linked article was able to buy them for $1.42 each.

I've long been curious about MIPS from a hobbyist/tinkerer/maker perspective and would be very interested to know what silicon I might select at a similar price point.