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EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Thursday, November 01, 2007

MIPS to go commodity in the 32-bit MCU space?

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An announcement from MIPS Technologies says that it will add a range of IP specifically intended to build general-purpose 32-bit microcontrollers, to its IP product range. This appears only to make sense if one of two things is true; either,
1) MIPS is about to enter the ranks of fabless semiconductor manufacturers and build its own range of microcontroller chips, or 2) Somewhere in the shadows there is a significant semiconductor vendor that has signed up to build catalogue MCU chips with the MIPS IP.
A MIPS spokesman – unsurprisingly – stamped firmly on option (1), “MIPS is and will always remain, a pure-play IP company.” So, speculation number (2)? A firm, “No comment” was the answer to that, so I guess that will have to go on the ‘watch this space’ pile.

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