Intellectual Property

MIPS Technologies is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications. We design and license the industry's highest performance 32- and 64-bit architectures and cores, which also offer some of the smallest silicon footprints and lowest power consumption of any embedded microprocessors. Our customers include more than 100 of the world's leading OEM, fabless and ASIC semiconductor companies, and our technology is driving many high-growth embedded markets including digital set-top boxes, digital televisions, DVD recordable devices, broadband access devices, digital cameras, laser printers and network routers.

Our product offering is the broadest in the IP business, and includes optimized architectural extensions - such as those for programmability, multi-threading and security - and software solutions. And, by being the only company to openly license its industry-standard 32- and 64-bit ISAs, there are hundreds of CPUs, ASSPs, ASICs, and hard and soft cores now shipping to market - more than for any other embedded RISC architecture. These MIPS-Based products range from ultralow-power CPU cores occupying less than a half-millimeter of silicon to quad-issue CPUs running at 1 GHz. To date, our customers have shipped over $1 billion worth of MIPS-Based silicon.

For more information about the company, visit www.mips.com .