Look out ARM, Intel, here comes MIPS – again
发表于 : 2013-08-31 5:51
MIPS Technologies 公司2013年2月被一家叫做Imagination Technologies的公司以一亿美元收购（之前没看到相关新闻）。Imagination的CEO想要恢复MIPS CPU昔日的辉煌。让我们拭目以待。
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29 ... ute_cores/Imagination Technologies, best known for its PowerVR graphics-core designs used by a host of system-on-chip (SoC) purveyors from Apple to Intel, wants world+dog to know that it is dedicated to grabbing a hefty chunk of the compute-core market with its MIPS-based designs resulting from its acquisition of that venerable company, completed this February.
"We didn't acquire MIPS for the hell of it," Imagination CEO Hossein Yassaie told a gathering of reporters and analysts on Wednesday. "You know, a hundred million dollars is a quite lot of money for an IP company to spend on a business."
MIPS compute-core designs may have made their mark in embedded systems, but Yassaie's plans are more far-reaching than that. "The reason for acquiring MIPS is because we want to make sure we have an architecture we can take to every market that requires a CPU," he said.
"We are aiming to have 25 per cent market share of the CPU IP market. What we are trying to do is get MIPS back to its glory days."
