Time-to-Market
Companies to Share Design, Technology and Roadmap Information
to Optimize MIPS(R) IP Cores for TSMC Process Technology
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business
applications, today announced that it has joined the TSMC (TWSE:2330)
(NYSE:TSM) Soft IP Alliance Program to speed customers' time-to-market.
Through the Soft IP Program, TSMC is expected to provide specific
design documents and technology information so that MIPS and other
Alliance partners can optimize IP cores for TSMC's process
technologies. The companies will also collaborate on roadmap alignment
to expedite IP readiness.
"We're pleased to expand our relationship with TSMC by joining its IP
Alliance," said Art Swift, vice president of marketing and business
development, MIPS Technologies. "By sharing design, technology and
roadmap information with TSMC, we can drive toward closer alignment and
speed development for our many customers who work with TSMC on chip
fabrication. We look forward to continuing to deepen our relationship
with TSMC to further benefit our mutual customers."
"The combination of TSMC's foundry-leading technologies and
manufacturing capability with MIPS Technologies' soft IP cores will
enable customers to gain early insight into the power, performance and
area trade-offs inherent in their SoC designs. This is an increasingly
critical factor in meeting time to market objectives. We are pleased to
be able to deliver this important information to our customers to help
them make the best possible decisions," said Dan Kochpatcharin, deputy
director, IP Portfolio Marketing at TSMC.
TSMC's new Soft IP Program enriches TSMC's IP alliance portfolio,
encourages soft IP innovation and reuse through TSMC's Open Innovation
Platform(TM) initiative, and aims to deliver power, performance and
area optimization that is important at advanced technology nodes.
About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS) is a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of
the world's most popular products for the home entertainment,
communications, networking and portable multimedia markets. These
include broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer
devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top
boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit
microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from
Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide. For more information,
contact (408) 530-5000 or visit www.mips.com.
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