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by CoffeeDregs 2117 days ago
Ha. I was involved with MIPS in 2004 or so and worked with them on their China strategy. They were very worried about going to China and losing control of IP. My counterpoint was: MIPS was basically an also-ran to x86 & ARM and survival was the big question. The chances of survival without presence in China was basically zero so: MIPS should maintain their market in the US and fight for presence in China; if they got into China, then they could focus on the larger war and on defending IP in China...; if they didn't get into China, they were dead anyways.