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MIPS Technologies Licenses Next-Generation 32-Bit Core to Texas Instruments for Use in Broadband Solutions
TI to Integrate MIPS32™ 4KEc™ Core with TI's Programmable DSP Technology for Broadband Applications
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and DALLAS, Texas, (Dec. 18, 2001) -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS, MIPSB), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and network applications, announced that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has taken a license for its next-generation 32-bit core, the MIPS32(tm) 4KEc(tm) synthesizable core. TI is using the new, enhanced 4KEc core for broadband solutions, which, at 1.4 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, offers the highest performance available in a 32-bit synthesizable core. TI will integrate the 4KEc core with its digital signal processing (DSP) technology allowing manufacturers' equipment to handle multimedia and security applications for DSL, cable, and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP).
TI has been a MIPS Technologies licensee since 1999, when it became the first company to take a license for the MIPS 32- and 64-bit cores. It used the MIPS32 4Kc™ core in several products for DSL and cable broadband applications, and in multiple ASIC designs. Now, TI will use the enhanced version, the -4KEc- core as part of its integrated silicon and software data and voice chipset solutions for asymmetrical DSL (ADSL), cable and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) broadband products. The end result will be home routers, integrated access devices and voice-over broadband gateways that allow consumers to network multiple Internet accounts and access entertainment and business services such as streaming audio/visual, real-time video conferencing and virtual private network security.
"By integrating the MIPS32 4KEc core with TI's DSP and analog technology, TI provides a high level of performance, flexibility and development support that will enable our customers to build outstanding new products," said Joseph Crupi, vice president of TI's Broadband Communications Group. "We are looking forward to working with MIPS as we expand our broadband product offerings and continue to rapidly grow our business in this important market."
"The combination of powerful MIPS IP with TI's industry-leading DSP technology results in world-class products," said Derek Meyer, vice president of worldwide field operations at MIPS Technologies. "We are pleased to have this partnership and a winning combination of leading-edge technologies as the basis for the mutual success we both envision."
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