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The comparison of ARM and MIPS?

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Which is stronger MIPS or ARM?
Which is more commonly adopted MIPS or ARM?
Which is rising MIPS or ARM?

I have read about both and visited their websites and I got confused. I see that ARM is used in microcontrollers released by large semiconductor companies such as Texas, NXP, and ATMEL. While MIPS is used in dedicated applications such as VoIP.
Can you help decide which one to learn and to recommend for future applications?
 

Re: ARM or MIPS?

ARM was famous for the best overall performance to power-consumption ratio. The "Thumb" mode (16-bit instruction words) also reduced codesize. Both these features together helped ARM dominate the portable-electronics market. Today, ARM proessor is de-facto standard of mobile-handset/cellphone market.

In other consumer devices, where power-consumption is not as important, ARM shares the market with competitors (like MIPs.) In general, MIPs is more powerful (more work done per clock-cycle) than ARM, but consume more power. For example, the vast majority of TV-decoder platforms (cable/satellite/IPTV) contain an embedded MIPs core (or more than 1.)
 

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