MIPS news provides updates on the MIPS processor architecture, historically known for its efficiency and simplicity in embedded systems and networking gear. Recent efforts to modernize MIPS include RISC-V alignment, enhanced scalability, and licensing flexibility for SoC integration. While overshadowed by ARM and x86 in many markets, MIPS continues to serve niche and legacy applications in consumer electronics and telecom. For Electronics Weekly readers, MIPS developments shed light on processor diversification, IP strategies, and microarchitecture evolution in the embedded systems landscape.
For physical AI at the edge, MIPS has introduced the Atlas Explorer portfolio. The company explained that it allows designers cycle-accurate repeatability of their workload onto a MIPS processor. It provides access to platform IP ahead of silicon availability for evaluation to enable pre-production RTL and for teams to develop optimised hardware and concepts such as digital twins to gain ...
The company which bought MIPS, Wave Computing, has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. MIPS is now developing an 8th generation architecture, based on RISC-V. MIPS has suffered a chequered history since being bought by Imagination in 2013. In 2017, China-backed Canyon Bridge bought Imagination and the US government insisted that MIPS must not go with Imagination to Canyon Bridge so ...
MIPS has ended up in China, reports Reuters. It got there via a tortured series of deals starting with Imagination buying MIPS in 2013 followed by China-backed Canyon Bridge buying Imagination in 2017. The US government insisted that MIPS must not go with Imagination to Canyon Bridge so MIPS was sold to Diosdado Banatao who made his first fortunes at ...
MIPs, which was bought by Imagination and had to be divested when Imagination was sold to Chinese interests, has been bought by Wave Computing. ’The acquisition will accelerate Wave’s strategy of offering AI acceleration from the Datacenter to the Edge of Cloud by extending the company’s products beyond AI systems to now also include AI-enabled embedded solutions,’ says Wave. Dado ...
MIPS, provider of the eponymous processor architecture and IP cores, is once again in Silicon Valley, following the acquisition of MIPS from Imagination Technologies by Tallwood Venture Capital and Paxion Capital Partners. Tallwood’s managing director, Dado Banatao and Nicholas Brathwaite, founding partner of Riverwood Capital and WRV Capital, will represent Paxion on the board of directors. John Hennessy, former president ...
Imagination is to press ahead with the sale of MIPS to Silicon Valley investment group Tallwood Venture Capital after another potential bidder pulled out of the process.
Imagination Technologies has secured an important design-in for its MIPS processor technology with MediaTek. Crucially this takes MIPS into high-volume smartphone modems. The mobile phone chipset firm has adopted the multi-threaded MIPS I-class CPU for smartphone LTE modems. The mobile device from MediaTek featuring MIPS technology is the latest MT6799 Helio X30 processor which uses MIPS in its Cat-10 LTE ...
Imagination is selling its MIPS and Ensigma units which together brought in £21 million or 29% of Imagination’s revenues last quarter. Imagination bought MIPS for £60 million in 2012. Imagination once saw MIPS it as a way into the mobile CPU market which is dominated by ARM. However, recently Imagination scaled back its ambitions for MIPS saying it was positioning ...
Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.
The open-source community behind the MIPS processor is working with the US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the area of software controlled radio technology for IoT. Eric Schultz, community manager with the prpl Foundation will advise on how proposed FCC regulations may affect the open source community and the growth of the internet of things (IoT). Schultz says it ...
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