Alchemy (processor)
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The Alchemy microprocessor
is a low power processor family that uses MIPS architecture
. The Alchemy family was used by AMD, Raza Microelectronics (currently NetLogic Microsystems) and Sun Microsystems in its embedded products such as Network processors.
Products include
Microprocessor
A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and...
is a low power processor family that uses MIPS architecture
MIPS architecture
MIPS is a reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by MIPS Technologies . The early MIPS architectures were 32-bit, and later versions were 64-bit...
. The Alchemy family was used by AMD, Raza Microelectronics (currently NetLogic Microsystems) and Sun Microsystems in its embedded products such as Network processors.
Products include
- AMD Alchemy Au1550 Processor (Network processor)
- Sun Ray 2Sun RayThe Sun Ray from Oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments, originally introduced by Sun Microsystems in September 1999...
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DRAC5 remote administration cards.
External links
- Official website at NetLogic Microsystems
- Alchemy page at linux-mips.org