MIPS - MIPS Technologies Inc.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (MIPS) is a provider of processor architectures and cores that power some of the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia products. The Companys technology is used in markets, such as mobile consumer electronics, digital entertainment, wired and wireless communications and networking, office automation, security, microcontrollers, and automotive. MIPS customers are global semiconductor companies and system original equipment manufacturers (system OEMs). The Companys business model is based on the licensing of embedded processor intellectual property (IP) in the form of both architectures and implementations. The Company has developed standards for both 32-bit and 64-bit computing. It licenses its MIPS32 and MIPS64 instruction-set architectures (ISAs), application specific extensions (ASEs), core designs and other related IP to semiconductor companies and system OEMs.