Imagination Technologies sold off MIPS in 2017 [1] - while RISC-V might have been a thing back then, it was certainly nowhere as known as it is today, and well before any decision to focus on RISC-V.
Interesting in that Imagination have since announced RISC-V cores [2], but that's unrelated to any of the MIPS tech, and none of the MIPS engineers worked on it as the project started well after the sale.
Interesting in that Imagination have since announced RISC-V cores [2], but that's unrelated to any of the MIPS tech, and none of the MIPS engineers worked on it as the project started well after the sale.
[1] https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/completion-of-sale-of-m...
[2] https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/imagination-launches-ri...