MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of industry standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications. The company drives the broadest architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC solutions. The company licenses its intellectual property to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers, and system OEMs. MIPS Technologies, Inc. and its licensees offer the widest range of robust, scalable processors in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products.

Take advantage of the highest performance 32-bit cores in the embedded industry while minimizing design time and reducing product costs. Tailored SoC design methodologies, an Open Core Protocol (OCP) interconnect structure; standard libraries and on-chip memories from industry-leading companies ensure that products based on 24K cores are brought to market with speed, ease and efficiency. Designed to power through graphics, Java and demanding code and with features like an ultra fast multiply, intelligent caches, floating point support and the CorExtend™ capability - which allows users to supercharge application performance by defining and adding their own instructions - the 24K family is the ideal solution for digital and interactive television, set-top boxes, DVD and other performance-driven applications.

Boost system performance through the multithreading extension to the industry-standard MIPS32® and MIPS64® architectures. Multithreading is a technique for tolerating memory and execution latency and getting higher utilization out of processor functional units.

• Virtual processing elements (VPE) enable two virtual processors to share common resources
• Fine grain threading enables applications using MIPS MT ASE instructions to exploit inherent application parallelism
• Quality of service (QoS) scheduling allows one or more real-time threads of execution to a defined portion of the total compute power
• Threads are relocatable in multi-core systems
• Applications and OSs see a large "virtual" thread resource pool, since thread context is software visible
• Designed for low cost implementation overhead

The highly configurable MIPS32® 4KE™ family offers features such as code compression, larger writeback cache memories and extensive clock gating. The 4KE family gives system-on-chip (SoC) designers even more flexibility to optimize their applications by maximizing performance or minimizing power consumption.