MIPS Technologies Selected as Finalist in EDN’s Annual Innovation
Posted on February 5, 2008
Filed Under News, Semiconductors, Silicon Valley News, Tech Biz
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MIPS
Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard
architectures, processor cores and analog IP for digital consumer, home
networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today
announced it has been selected from hundreds of nominations to be a
finalist for this year’s EDN Innovation Awards. The company’s
high-performance MIPS32(R) 74K(TM) processor cores were selected in the
Microcontrollers and Cores category. Instituted in 1990, the Innovation
Awards honor the people, products, and technologies that have shaped the
semiconductor industry over the past year.
“It is a real honor to be selected by EDN’s editors as a finalist in
the prestigious Innovation Awards competition,” said Jack Browne, vice
president of marketing, Processor Business Group, MIPS Technologies.
“Though some architectural techniques employed by our 74K cores can be seen
in other high-performance processors, this is the first time they have been
implemented with embedded market requirements in mind. Developers can
leverage a unique combination of features to quickly and cost-effectively
develop products with unprecedented performance and low power consumption.”
“We have our broadest set of categories in the history of our
Innovation Awards program in 2007,” states EDN Editorial Director Maury
Wright. “With specialization affecting everything from components to test
equipment, our staff diligently worked to group like technologies for
meaningful comparison and delivered an outstanding slate of finalists. The
slate includes the range of ICs from analog to processors, development and
EDA software, amazing sensors, and modular and system products including
test equipment. The voters will face tough decisions but without doubt,
compelling products will emerge as winners.”
During the month of February, EDN’s worldwide audience of electronics
engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select the
ultimate winners from among the finalists. EDN’s editorial staff and
Editorial Advisory Board also take part in determining the final winners.
Readers are encouraged to visit http://www.EDN.com/innovation18 to review
each of the nominees. Winners will be announced at a dinner and awards
ceremony on April 14, 2008 in San Jose, Calif.
The 74K cores are the embedded industry’s first fully-synthesizable
32-bit processors to achieve operating frequencies greater than 1GHz in a
generic 65nm process technology. The 74K core family can be implemented
with generic standard cells, memories and EDA design flows without the need
for premium physical IP or costly structured logic and custom design flows.
The processor family is optimized to deliver exceptional performance levels
as well as area- and power-efficiencies required for today’s complex SoC
designs.
About EDN and EDN.com
EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and
engineering managers worldwide. EDN.com delivers a three-dimensional view
of the electronics industry via news coverage, strategic business
information, and in-depth technical content. EDN (http://www.edn.com) is
published by Reed Business Information (http://www.reedbusiness.com/us),
the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. and a member of the
Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL) — a world-leading publisher
and information provider.
Processor Business Group
MIPS Technologies provides the number one processor architecture across
a wide array of high-growth markets, including digital television,
broadband access, WiFi, cable set-top boxes, DVD recorders, HD DVDs, and
VoIP. The company offers the most comprehensive line of processor cores
available for the embedded market-ranging from high-performance to low
power products with unique efficiencies and cost advantages for
next-generation SoC designs. MIPS Technologies licenses its intellectual
property to leading semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system
OEMs. As an industry-standard architecture for more than two decades, MIPS
Technologies provides the most extensive range of scalable microprocessors
in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products
worldwide. The MIPS(R) Ecosystem provides a robust infrastructure of
world-class standard tools, software suites and services to help ensure
rapid, reliable, high-quality and cost-effective SoC development.
About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS) is the world’s second largest
semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company
worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies
powers some of the world’s most popular products for the digital consumer,
broadband, wireless, networking and portable media markets-including
broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and entertainment systems 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. Today, the company owns
more than 400 patent properties (patents and applications) worldwide.
Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Mountain View,
California, with offices worldwide. For more information, contact (650)
567-5000 or visit http://www.mips.com.
MIPS, MIPS32 and 74K are trademarks or registered trademarks in the
United States and other countries of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other
trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE MIPS Technologies, Inc.
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