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Technology Innovation to IP Leadership

MIPS Technologies is the world's second largest semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies is the only company that provides a combined portfolio of processors, analog IP and software tools for the embedded market. MIPS provides the number one processor architecture worldwide in high-growth markets such as digital television, broadband access, WiFi, cable set-top boxes, DVD recorders, HD DVDs, and VoIP.

MIPS Technologies offers the broadest array of processor cores available in the embedded market, ranging from the highest performance to the lowest power products with unique efficiencies and cost advantages for next-generation SoC design. MIPS also offers the industry's broadest array of state-of-the-art RF, analog and mixed-signal technologies worldwide with a library of IP cores proven and certified in today's leading processes across a wide array of foundries.

For more than two decades, MIPS Technologies has been a leader and innovator in the worldwide embedded semiconductor market. At the heart of MIPS is its architecture, developed 20 years ago by Stanford University engineering Professor John Hennessy-now president of Stanford University. Hennessy took the lead in RISC processing and created an elegant, streamlined architecture with a scalability that has met the demands of generations of applications, preserving the wealth of development tools and software that support them. Today, the MIPS® architecture is an industry standard and the performance leader within the embedded industry.

In August 2007, MIPS Technologies acquired privately-held Chipidea Microelectronica, the world's leading independent supplier of analog and mixed signal IP. Chipidea was founded in 1997 by three professors of the Electronics and Computer Engineering Department of the Technical University of Lisbon - Portugal, who recognized a great opportunity to create a company that would leverage the growing analog engineering expertise they were creating in Portugal. Today, Chipidea serves as MIPS Technologies' Analog Business Group.

Backed by a vast and robust ecosystem of partners dedicated to best-in-class development support, MIPS Technologies helps customers successfully design next-generation solutions on time, with less risk and lower cost.

Market Leadership

MIPS Technologies powers some of the world's most popular products for the digital consumer, broadband, wireless communications, networking and portable media markets. There are millions of MIPS-Based^TM products around the world, including broadband devices from Linksys, digital cameras, DTVs and entertainment systems from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard.

In fact, MIPS Technologies provides the #1 architecture in a number of high-volume, high-growth market segments, including:

* Cable Modems 95%

* Internet Backbone 40%

* DSL Modems 52%

* VoIP Applications 72%

* WLAN Access 55%

* DVD Recorders 70%

* Cable STB 76%

* Satellite STB 30%

* Digital TV 59%

* Color Laser Printer 62%

* Commercial Color Copiers 73%

*IDC, In-Stat, Semico, Iconocast, MIPS Technologies

Values are percentage of worldwide OEM units shipped

The MIPS Technologies Advantage

MIPS Technologies is the only company to offer a combined portfolio of processors, analog IP and software tools for the embedded market.

* Solutions that range from the highest performance to the lowest power consumption

* Open, licensable architecture for maximum design flexibility

* The broadest range of 32- and 64-bit CPUs, ASICs and cores

* Synthesizable and configurable cores

* Seamless 32-/64-bit compatibility to protect software investment

* Broadest portfolio of leading analog and mixed-signal IP, from precision single-function blocks to top-performing subsystems in most foundries and processes

* Rapid, reliable, cost-effective development, supported by hundreds of tools and the most popular operating systems, including Linux, VxWorks, Windows CE, Nucleus and ThreadX

* Hardware verification and advanced system debug technologies

Processors

* MIPS32® 1004K^TM Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 74K^TM Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 34K® Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 24K® Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 24KE^TM Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 4K® and 4KE^TM Families of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS32® 4KS^TM Family of 32-bit Cores

* MIPS64® 5K® Family of 64-bit Cores

* MIPS32® M4K® Core

* Pro Series® Family of Cores with CorExtend® User-defined Instruction Capability

* System IP Solutions

* Application Specific Extensions (ASE)

* MIPS32® and MIPS64® Instruction Set Architectures (ISA)

Analog IP

* Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC)

* Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC)

* Analog-Front-Ends (AFE)

* Analog Standard Cells

* Audio Solutions

* Power Management Solutions

* Oscillators

* RF Tuners and Transceivers

* USB Interfaces

* USB PHY

* DigRF Interfaces

* DigRF PHY

* HDMI interfaces

* HDMI PHY

* LVDS SerDes

* Ethernet MAC

* PLL

Tools & Software

* MIPS® Navigator^TM IDE

* MIPS® SDE

* CodeSourcery GNU Toolchain for MIPS

* Probes & Probe Software