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MIPS Speeds Broadband Set-top Boxes
News MIPS Technologies has given high-tech set-top boxes a boost with a new 64bit microprocessor design called MIPS64 5Kf, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California this week. A 64bit processor is a necessity when it comes to...
[June 13, 2001, 14:02]
MIPS Cuts A Third Of Staff
News Chip creator MIPS Technologies plans to cut about one third of its staff, part of a restructuring plan announced on Thursday. MIPS, which was once part of computer maker SGI, said it would continue developing its standard processors and related...
[May 16, 2003, 14:09]
Symbian Eyes Up The MIPS Chips
News ZDNet UK News has received information that Symbian may be set to cut a deal with MIPS Technologies. MIPS Technologies can be reached at www.mips.com. But Psion founder David Potter recently hinted to us that when those products arrive, they might...
[February 23, 2000, 12:55]
AMD Adds Alchemy To Its Chip Arsenal
News The 32-bit chip is based on the 32-bit MIPS32 processor architecture, licensed from MIPS Technologies. AMD said Wednesday that it would acquire Alchemy Semiconductor, maker of MIPS-based chips for devices such as PDAs and MP3 players.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
General Purpose Processors Flash Their Assets
News If you look at what has happened to electronics over a long period of time, standard processors, as they have come down in price, have subsumed more applications," said John Bourgoin, chief executive of chip design firm MIPS Technologies.
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
IDT Takes On MIPS Licences
News MIPS Technologies, the US embedded chip designer, said it has licensed two of its new cores to communications chip maker IDT. The deal is an important one for MIPs, which faces lower sales in the handheld computer arena in the wake of Microsoft's...
[October 12, 2001, 16:36]
AMD Pushes For 64-bit Mobile Computing
News AMD has licensed an advanced architecture from MIPS Technologies in a move to boost its new embedded chips division, which makes processors for "embedded" devices such as handheld computers and information appliances.
[April 30, 2002, 12:24]
ARM Offers Low-power Mobile Chips
News At the same event, the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, competitor MIPS Technologies announced a multiprocessing core aimed at networking applications. MIPS on Monday introduced the M4K core, a multiprocessing core aimed at network applications.
[May 1, 2002, 15:55]
ARM: Moving On From Mobiles
News And other companies, like MIPS Technologies, Tensilica and Arc International are also gunning for this market, he said. Given the company's position in the mobile phone market, Drew argues that content companies are intrigued by ARM's drive into...
[April 3, 2006, 13:40]
Neutrino OS Is Unix Flavour Of The Month
News Since then, the company has ported its operating system to PowerPC and MIPS. It is working on ARM and StrongARM ports of Neutrino, and it could have a "fairly reasonable set" of its technologies ported to ARM/StrongARM within six months, officials...
[October 20, 2000, 8:32]
Intel Keeps The Heat On Itanium
News Everything we're doing now is to drive MIPS (millions of instructions per second) and keep watts down, and we don't want to drop that. We've just brought the product to market, and it'll be a little while yet before we're optimising it for watts...
[August 10, 2001, 14:31]
Transitive Creates 1GHz PowerPC On Athlon
News The company recently unveiled software for running x86 software on embedded MIPS processors and is collaborating with Alchemy Semiconductors on an ARM to MIPS version of Dynamite. UK and California-based software firm Transitive Technologies plans...
[October 18, 2001, 16:37]
Meet The New Amiga: It's Not Like The Old Amiga
News Along with these kind of components, Amiga is also looking at MIPS and low-cost X86 chips, he said. In addition to Linux, Java and Jini, Amiga will use technologies that accent those technologies without jacking up the cost of a system, according...
[August 13, 1999, 9:06]
Veitch Speaks: Intel Doesn't Own The World
News Delays to IA-64 mean that Silicon Graphics' MIPS and Hewlett-Packard's PA-Risc get one or two last verses and both firms are smart enough to have acknowledged that. I'm thinking particularly of communications, interconnect technologies, storage and...
[January 16, 1999, 6:09]
Mobile Phone Makers Hunt For 3G Solution
News One member of the audience was irked at Quicksilver's refusal to use standard measurements of performance such as MIPS (millions of instructions per second) or MOPS (millions of operations per second).
[May 14, 2002, 13:37]
US Report: SGI Deals With Intel; Outlines Strategy
News Silicon Graphics also announced that its MIPS Technologies subsidiary will be spun off as a public company. MIPS designs and licenses microprocessors for the consumer and embedded markets, including game machines, set-top boxes and handheld devices
[April 15, 1998, 7:00]
Truly Parallel Processing And Dramatic Application Speed-Up With SGI RASC Technology
White Papers For example, SGI Origin 2000 and 3000 systems tightly integrated MIPS processors along with the SGI Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) which was specifically designed to accelerate applications which require FFT style calculations.
[March 3, 2008, 23:00]
Alchemy's Au1000: This Chip Can Cook
News The 32-bit chip is based on the 32-bit MIPS32 processor architecture, licensed from MIPS Technologies. On Monday, the 80-employee chipmaker revealed the first product behind that recipe, its MIPS-based Au1000 processor.
[February 6, 2001, 8:18]
PocketPC Makes Switch To StrongArm
News Hewlett-Packard and Symbol made the move to StrongARM earlier, but with Thursday's debut Casio Computer, NEC and Toshiba were also forced to switch to StrongARM, ditching MIPS Technologies and Hitachi.
[October 4, 2001, 17:33]
Chip Designers Paint A Brighter Picture
News Chip designers, including companies such as ARM Holdings, Rambus and MIPS Technologies, sell their blueprints to companies that integrate them into chips. Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
