45 news items tagged MIPS
China foundry HSMC to push chiplet standard formulation, says CEO Shang-yi Chiang
Tuesday 20 August 2019While Moore's Law is approaching its physical limits, only a few could still afford the expensive game of process shrink. And when the post-Moore's Law era comes, semiconductor firms,...
The enterprise platform revolution of 2017: An opportunity for Taiwan vendors to take the lead
Tuesday 30 May 2017With all the overcooked buzz about mobility, IoT and other consumer-oriented market speak, it is easy to forget the less sexy, but far more profitable and strategically important...
Imagination popular Codescape tools now provide MIPS CPU support and extended Linux/RTOS capabilities
Wednesday 26 February 2014Imagination Technologies announced that the latest version of its popular Codescape debugger now supports the full range of MIPS CPUs, offers new Linux and RTOS awareness features,...
Sequans adopts Imagination MIPS Aptiv CPUs for LTE products
Friday 20 December 2013Imagination Technologies has announced that Sequans Communications is leveraging its MIPS Aptiv CPUs in the creation of next-generation low-power, cost-effective single-mode LTE solutions...
Imagination introduces first MIPS Warrior CPU
Wednesday 13 November 2013Aiming to bring a strong alternative for the CPU IP market, Imagination announces the first MIPS Series5 'Warrior P-class' P5600 CPU core, representing a major step forward in feature...
Imagination, MediaTek team up for heterogeneous multi-processing SoCs
Wednesday 4 September 2013Imagination Technologies has recognized MediaTek for its deployment of heterogeneous processing. The new MediaTek MT8135 chip is a mobile SoC enabling heterogeneous multi-processing...
Imagination, Mentor extend partnership
Wednesday 28 August 2013Imagination Technologies has expanded its partnership with Mentor Graphics for Sourcery CodeBench development tools components for MIPS CPUs, according to the companies. Sourcery...
Imagination readies MIPS CPUs for smartphones, tablets
Monday 1 July 2013The upcoming MIPS Series5 Warrior chips will be Imagination's first CPUs, as well as the first product from its acquisition of MIPS Technologies in 2012.
The advantages of NOR flash for embedded applications are well known. It is fast, and it allows software to run and modify its contents highly reliably because it functions in a random...
MIPS virtualization technology: Creating efficient embedded security solutions
Friday 15 March 2013Today, the importance of hardware virtualization has continued to increase from home entertainment to the mobile market. A higher level of security and content protection can be achieved...
Acquisition of MIPS Technologies completed
Monday 18 February 2013Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, "Imagination") has completed the acquisition of the operating business and certain patent properties of MIPS Technologies,...
MIPS focused on growing Android market, partnerships in Asia
Monday 16 July 2012With Google adding MIPS into its Android NDK, application developers are now able to bring their natively-developed Android applications to MIPS-based products, according to Mark...
Application development on Android today
Wednesday 11 July 2012Android is the mainstream platform in the non-Apple camp but various versions of Android limit the possibilities of developers' transplantation of Android apps. Microprocessor heavyweight...
SSD controller SoC operated in a multi-threaded CPU environment can achieve cost optimization goals, says MIPS
Wednesday 14 March 2012The SSD controller market is rapidly expanding, creating huge opportunities for the semiconductor industry. However, the design of complex chips and ever-increasing performance/functional...
MIPS joins Renesas SoC partner program
Friday 20 January 2012MIPS Technologies, a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, has announced that it has joined the Renesas...
Android 4.0.3 comes to MIPS architecture
Thursday 29 December 2011MIPS Technologies, a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, has announced that Android 4.0.3,...
MIPS, Ingenic announce availability of sub-US$100 Android 4.0 tablet
Tuesday 6 December 2011MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, a China-based CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications, have announced worldwide availability of a sub-US$100 tablet PC based on...
MIPS processors power new Sequans LTE SoC for handsets, tablets
Monday 31 October 2011MIPS Technologies has announced that the new LTE SoC from 4G chipmaker Sequans Communications is powered by MIPS industry-standard processors.
MIPS, eSilicon announce tape-out of 28nm MPU cluster
Thursday 6 October 2011Processor IP company MIPS Technologies and semiconductor value chain producer eSilicon have announced the tape-out of a high-performance, three-way microprocessor cluster on Globalfoundries'...
Loongson continues developing MIPS-based CPUs
Thursday 11 August 2011MIPS Technologies has announced that Loongson Technology has licensed the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures for continued development of MIPS-based Loongson CPU cores.
MIPS: More than 90% of Android apps can run on any processor architecture
Thursday 2 June 2011Android has been a hot topic at Computex Taipei this year, with various players discussing the pros and cons of developing apps for the respective hardware platforms such as ARM or...
Realtek licenses processors from MIPS Technologies
Wednesday 19 January 2011MIPS Technologies has announced that IC design house Realtek Semiconductor is licensing a broad range of MIPS32 processor cores. Realtek will use the cores for next-generation SoCs...
MIPS joins TSMC IP alliance
Tuesday 12 October 2010MIPS Technologies has joined the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Soft IP Alliance Program to speed customers' time-to-market, according to the IP...
MIPS-based Android phone expected in 2011
Friday 4 June 2010At a hotel suite during Computex 2010, MIPS Technologies updated several developments about its Android-supporting processor architecture.
Loongson reportedly to buy stake in MIPS
Friday 4 June 2010China's Loongson Technology, a computer-chip designer funded by the Institute of Computing Technologies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is mulling plans to acquire a 20%...
- MIPS returns to Silicon Valley, eyes burgeoning AI market (Jan 19) - ExtremeTech
- Imagination shares positive MIPS progress (November 18) - Company release
- Imagination reveals first MIPS Warrior P-class CPU core (October 14) - Company release
- Imagination to battle ARM with MIPS server chips (August 30) - InfoWorld
- Imagination Tech faces competition for MIPS buy (November 21) - Reuters
- ARM and Imagination Technologies in deal to carve up chipmaker MIPS (November 6) - Guardian
- MIPS agrees to sale of patent properties to AST and acquisition by Imagination (November 5) - Company release
- Karbonn Mobiles shipping MIPS-based tablet in India (July 31) - Company release
- Buying MIPS would bring AMD nothing much, say analysts (Apr 17) - EE Times
- MIPS is said to have hired Goldman Sachs to help find buyer (April 13) - Bloomberg