Mips Technologies, Inc. (MM) (NASDAQ:MIPS)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2019 to Jun 2024
MIPS Architecture Enabling Growing List of Mobile Application
Processors
Sony's PlayStation(R) Portable Among the Battery-Powered Products Leveraging
the MIPS(R) Architecture to Heighten the User Experience
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Sony
PlayStation(R) Portable and Canon's EOS Digital Rebel camera family are among
the growing list of portable devices being driven by MIPS-Based(TM) application
processors. MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS), a Silicon Valley-based
company whose technology is found in many high-growth consumer electronics
products, announced today that the industry-standard MIPS(R) microprocessor
architecture is extending its reach into the mobile applications space. The
architecture's inherent low-power and high- performance capabilities have
already made it the de facto standard in consumer products such as digital
set-top boxes, digital TVs and DVD recorders.
Growing requirements for audio, video and other digital signal processing (DSP)
tasks are increasing the performance demands on applications processors inside
many mobile products. This trend is causing OEMs to reconsider their system
and hardware configurations - and therefore the microprocessor architecture
upon which the system relies - to maximize performance capabilities while
prolonging battery life.
Below is a partial listing of MIPS-Based mobile devices available to consumers.
For more design wins, visit the company's Web site at http://www.mips.com/.
"We chose the MIPS architecture for our digital camera processor because the
technology enables our team to design products that maximize overall system
performance while minimizing any impact to battery life," said Coby Sella, vice
president and general manager of Zoran's mobile division. "The power savings is
achieved in the design of our COACH processor and in the system architecture we
deliver to the digital camera manufacturers. The success of the design has been
proven by Zoran's growing market share of the overall digital camera market."
"For a growing list of customers, the MIPS architecture is the choice for a
range of mobile applications because it uses low power to deliver the right
performance at the right price point," said Russ Bell, vice president of
marketing at MIPS Technologies. "We achieve this unique offering by leveraging
standard off-the-shelf memories, libraries and EDA flows from industry leading
vendors. Moving forward, MIPS Technologies will continue to deliver optimized
products that meet the power and performance demands of high-growth embedded
markets."
Why MIPS for Mobile Application Processors
The MIPS architecture offers low power advantages that are key to SOC designers
targeting battery-powered devices. At the heart of the MIPS architecture is a
streamlined architecture that has met the demands of generations of
applications over a 20-year period. The MIPS instruction set offers 32-element
register files (not 16, as with other architectures), which reduce the need to
access embedded cache and main memory to retrieve data. Fewer clock cycles are
needed to perform most tasks allowing the system to run at lower frequencies.
These characteristics translate into lower core and system power consumption
while operating at maximum microprocessor performance.
MIPS Technologies' customers may gain design flexibility through access to ISA
licenses, optimized hard macros and synthesizable cores, which enable the
optimization of silicon die area and power configurations to maximize battery
life. Additionally, MIPS Technologies' line of the industry's highest
performing cores offer customers more system headroom, so future upgrades can
be implemented in software easily and quickly.
MIPS-Based Cores More Power Efficient
Below is a comparison of MIPS Technologies cores to similar products from ARM
Holdings plc. The MIPS-Based cores were developed using standard off-the-
shelf libraries and memories and without voltage scaling techniques. All
numbers were taken from public material on the companies' Web sites as of this
announcement's date, and all products are listed as core-only configurations.
MIPS32(R) 4KEc(TM) core(1) ARM 926EJ-S core(1)
Best Frequency: 233 MHz 250 MHz
Best Performance: 356 DMIPS 300 DMIPS
Power: 0.25 mW/MHz 0.35 mW/MHz
Area: 1.7 mm(2) 2.2 mm(2)
Power Efficiency: 0.16 mW/DMIPS 0.29 mW/DMIPS
MIPS32 24Kc(TM) core(1) ARM 1136J-S core(1)
Best Frequency: 400 MHz 333 MHz
Best Performance: 576 DMIPS 400 DMIPS
Power: 0.58 mW/MHz 0.6 mW/MHz
Area: 2.8 mm(2) 4.5 mm(2)
Power efficiency: 0.40 mW/DMIPS 0.50 mW/DMIPS
Shipping MIPS-Based Mobile Devices
The MIPS architecture is gaining key design wins in a range of battery-
operated devices. OEMs shipping mobile MIPS-Based products include Canon,
Casio, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, JVC, Minolta, PENTAX, Philips, Samsung and Sony. MIPS
Technologies licensees providing innovative and low-power MIPS-Based silicon
include AMD, Broadcom, LSI Logic, NEC, Philips Semiconductors, Sunplus, Thrane
and Thrane, Toshiba and Zoran.
MIPS-Based mobile devices currently shipping or announced include:
Entertainment
* Sony PlayStation Portable handheld video game
* Sony AIBO entertainment robot
* Sony QRIO "dream robot"
* Macsense HomePod wireless audio player
Cameras
* Canon EOS 10D and Digital Rebel digital SLR cameras
* Canon Optura 300 digital video camcorder
* Fujifilm FinePix F700, S5000 and S7000 digital still cameras
* JVC GR-HD1 high-definition digital video camera
* Samsung Digimax 370 and 430 digital cameras
Computing/Communications
* AMX Modero ViewPoint MVP-7500 and MVP-8400 wireless touch-screen
panels
* Fujitsu TeamPad handheld computer
* Itronix fex21 handheld computer
* Wireless PC tablet in use by Chinese educational institutions
(1) Worst case conditions: 1.08V, 125C, slow silicon
About MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of industry-standard processor
architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications. The
company drives the broadest architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and
64-bit embedded RISC solutions. The company licenses its intellectual property
to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system OEMs. MIPS Technologies
and its licensees offer the widest range of robust, scalable processors in
standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products. The company is
based in Mountain View, Calif., and can be reached at +1 (650) 567-5000 or
http://www.mips.com/.
MIPS, MIPS-Based, MIPS32, 24Kc and 4KEc are trademarks or registered trademarks
of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other
trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: MIPS Technologies, Inc.
CONTACT: Lee Garvin Flanagin of MIPS Technologies, Inc.,
+1-650-567-5180, or
Web site: http://www.mips.com/