Electronics Weekly

MIPS moves closer to running Android on set-tops

MIPS Technologies has stepped up its plan to widen the market applications for Android platform beyond mobiles. Following its port of the Android platform to the MIPS architecture, the microprocessor ...
EDN

MIPS, ARC look to compress instruction code

LONDON — MIPS Technologies Inc. and ARC International plc, leading examples of companies that license their intellectual property rather than ship it in their own silicon, are set to make ...
PC World

Chinese Chip Project Licenses MIPS Architecture

The academy in charge of advancing China’s homegrown microprocessors has licensed the MIPS chip architecture, burying an old controversy over its use of parts of the MIPS instruction set. China’s ...
Bit-Tech

Wave releases first MIPS Open bundle

Wave Computing has made good on its promise of making the MIPs instruction set architecture (MIPS) available free of charge, announcing the first release in what it is calling the MIPS Open initiative ...
Design-Reuse

Lexra Announces the Fastest 32-BIT RISC Core to Execute MIPS® Instructions*

WALTHAM, MASS (July 19, 1999) – Lexra, a leading developer of processor cores for embedded applications, announced today the LX4280, the fastest 32-bit RISC core available to support the MIPS I® ...
Electronic Design

DSP Extensions Turn MIPS CPUs Into Media Stars

Adding DSP hardware extensions to the MIPS instruction-set architecture (ISA) boosts CPU throughput by up to 300% when handling signal-processing algorithms for audio ...