Sigma Designs Selects MIPS(R) Cores for Next Generation Home Entertainment SoCs
06 November 2007 - 10:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
MIPS Technologies' Cores Further Enable Highest Performance SoCs
for Worldwide HD and Home Entertainment Product Manufacturers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MIPS
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS), a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and
business applications, today announced that Sigma Designs
(NASDAQ:SIGM), a leading provider of highly integrated
systems-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions, has licensed the MIPS32(R)
24K(R) family of cores. Sigma selected MIPS Technologies' cores to
achieve the highest possible performance in the development of its
next generation SoC designs for the world's leading home
entertainment product manufacturers. The selection of MIPS
Technologies' cores offers Sigma a host of price, performance and
low-power options, as well as a comprehensive ecosystem of
software, hardware and tool support. Since 2003, Sigma Designs has
licensed a wide array of other MIPS(R) processor cores from the
entry-level MIPS32(R) 4KE(TM) series of processors to the
high-performing 24K family of cores. Sigma Designs' SoCs power
millions of home entertainment products around the world. According
to Sigma Designs, a Sigma SoC is inside approximately 75 percent of
the world's IPTV set-top boxes, the first media smart HDTVs, six of
the leading Blu-ray DVD players, and dozens of digital media
adapter products on the market today -- markets where MIPS
Technologies also holds a strong leadership position. "In media
processor design, satisfying our customers' stringent requirements
for area and power efficiency is as critical as achieving superior
levels of performance," said Ken Lowe, vice president, strategic
marketing, Sigma Designs. "Leveraging the proven MIPS cores allows
us to produce cost-effective, innovative designs that result in
some of the most exceptional, high-performing SoCs on the market."
"We're delighted to provide Sigma with leading edge solutions that
deliver the flexibility and high performance required for
cost-sensitive, digital consumer applications," said Brad
Holtzinger, vice president of worldwide sales at MIPS Technologies.
"We look forward to helping Sigma extend its industry leadership as
it brings new generations of ground-breaking products to market."
About Sigma Designs, Inc. Sigma Designs is a leading fabless
provider of highly integrated system-on-chip, or SoC, solutions
that are used to deliver multimedia entertainment throughout the
home. Sigma's SoC solutions combine its semiconductors and software
and are a critical component of multiple high-growth, consumer
applications that process digital video and audio content,
including internet protocol TV, or IPTV, high definition DVD
players, high definition TVs, or HDTVs, and portable media players.
Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., Sigma Designs also has sales
representatives in the United States, Belgium, China, Japan and
Taiwan and sells its products through third-party distributors in
Korea and Japan. For more information, please visit Sigma Designs'
web site at http://www.sigmadesigns.com/. About MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS) is a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and
business applications. The company drives the broadest
architectural alliance that delivers 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC
solutions to the embedded market, and in combination with its
licensees, offers the widest range of robust, scalable processors
in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products
worldwide. MIPS Technologies currently owns more than 400 patent
properties (patents and applications) worldwide and licenses its
intellectual property to today's leading semiconductor companies,
ASIC developers and system OEMs. Today, MIPS-Based(TM) designs are
integrated in millions of products around the world, including
broadband devices from Linksys, digital cameras from Canon, DTVs
and entertainment systems from Sony, DVD Recordable devices from
Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from
Cisco and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998,
MIPS Technologies is based in Mountain View, California, with
offices worldwide. For more information, please contact (650)
567-5000 or visit http://www.mips.com/. MIPS, MIPS32, 4KE, 24K,
MIPS-Based and MIPS-Verified are trademarks or registered
trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. All other trademarks referred to herein are the
property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: MIPS Technologies,
Inc. CONTACT: Jen Bernier of MIPS Technologies, Inc.,
+1-650-567-5178, ; or Allyson Stinchfield of Atomic PR,
+1-415-515-9186, , for MIPS Technologies, Inc. Web site:
http://www.mips.com/
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