Mips Technologies Inc - Current report filing (8-K)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

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FORM 8-K

 

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CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  September 17, 2008

 

 

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   MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

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Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

000-24487 (Commission File Number)

77-0322161 (IRS Employer Identification No.)

1225 Charleston Road

Mountain View, CA  94043

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)

 

[phone]

(Registrant's telephone number including area code)

 

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arranagements of Certain Officers. 

 

(b) On September 17, 2008, Jose Franca, the co-founder of Chipidea Microelectronica, S.A., who joined the MIPS Technologies, Inc. Board of Directors in 2007 in connection with the Chipidea acquisition, resigned from the Board.  This resignation follows Dr. Franca's recent resignation from the Company's Chipidea subsidiary.  Following Dr. Franca's resignation, the Board of Directors reduced the size of the Board to seven directors, representing the number of directors following Dr. Franca's resignation. 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Registrant)
Date:  September 23, 2008	By:	/s/   STUART J. NICHOLS
		Name:  Stuart J. Nichols
		Title:  Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

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