[vishnu]

You're not wrong; especially through third party manufacturers like NXP. However as far as I know all current MIPS uarches are "NRND" which means that they are not recommended for new designs. The impact of this is that yes you might be able to find embedded cores that are still being produced or whatever including potential new packaging to keep up with process strings and whatever processes are the most inexpensive to build cheap processors on.

However essentially all RISC development other than POWER, RISC V and ARM is essentially terminated from what I understand, maybe some of the Renesas chips or whatever still have SoCs, but yeah there is no MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC (and when I say this I refer to consumer type designs, e.g. QorIQ or NXP's E series) etc designs being currently produced anew.

So you're saying MIPS is just resting on their laurels and producing and selling legacy CPUs? Because they certainly don't mind tooting their own horn when it comes to RISC V development:

https://www.mips.com/products/