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Technology Innovation to IP Leadership

MIPS Technologies is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world's most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets.

For more than two decades, MIPS Technologies has been a leader and innovator in the worldwide embedded semiconductor market. At the heart of MIPS is its architecture, developed 20 years ago by Stanford University engineering Professor John Hennessy-now president of Stanford University. Hennessy took the lead in RISC processing and created an elegant, streamlined architecture with a scalability that has met the demands of generations of applications, preserving the wealth of development tools and software that support them. Today, the MIPS® architecture is an industry standard and the performance leader within the embedded industry.

There are millions of MIPS-BasedTM products around the world, including broadband devices from Linksys, digital cameras, DTVs and entertainment systems from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard.

The MIPS Technologies Advantage

MIPS Technologies offers a comprehensive processor product line, delivering solutions for everything from low-power microcontrollers to feature-rich set-top boxes and HDTVs-with unique efficiencies and cost advantages for next-generation SoC design. Backed by its own development tools and a vast and robust ecosystem of partners dedicated to best-in-class development support, MIPS Technologies helps customers successfully design next-generation solutions on time with less risk and lower cost.

  • Solutions that range from the highest performance to the lowest power consumption
  • Open, licensable 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for maximum design flexibility
  • A broad range of synthesizable and configurable 32-bit processor cores
  • Seamless 32-/64-bit compatibility to protect software investment
  • Rapid, reliable, cost-effective development, supported by hundreds of tools and the most popular operating systems, including Linux, VxWorks, Windows CE, Nucleus and ThreadX
  • Hardware verification and advanced system debug technologies