It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment.
> It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment.
I am no expert on this, but my personal impression is that projects of this kind slowly try to migrate towards RISC-V.
