Licensees and Products
MIPS Technologies creates the processor architecture that is licensed to chip makers. The company has 125+ licensees who ship more than 500 million MIPS-based processors each year.
MIPS Technologies has a strong customer licensee base in home electronics and portable media players; 75 percent of Blu-ray Disc players are running on MIPS Technologies processors. In the digital home, the company’s processors are predominately found in digital TVs and set-top boxes. The Sony PlayStation Portable uses two processors based on the MIPS R4000 processor.
Within the networking segment, licensees include Cavium Networks and Netlogic Microsystems. Cavium has used up to 16 MIPS cores for its OCTEON family network reference designs. Netlogic ships Linux-ready MIPS64-based XLP, XLR, and XLS multicore, multithreaded processors. Licensees using MIPS to build smartphones and tablets include Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor. Tablets based on MIPS include the Cruz tablets from Velocity Micro. TCL Corporation is using MIPS processors for the development of smartphones.
Other licensees include Broadcom, which has developed MIPS-based CPUs for over a decade, Microchip Technology, which leverages MIPS processors for its 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers, and Mobileye, whose EyeQ2 and EyeQ3 are based on cores licensed from MIPS.
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