This is &quot;the low end of 64 bit CPUs&quot;, though, MIPS is already competitive, along with ARM, in low end 32 bit CPUs, and Intel&#x27;s still in that space along with I don&#x27;t know who else.<p>So what&#x27;s worth the jump to 64 bits?  And note Loongson&#x2F;MIPS has competition from ARM as well (aren&#x27;t their 64 bit ARM cores in iPhones now?), and maybe RISC-V, they&#x27;re working on an out-of-order microarchtecture now (it&#x27;s an open core, $0 IP to use).