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The World’s First Android 4.0 Set Top Box certified with Google Mobile Services – It’s MIPS!

This post was written by Kevin Kitagawa on February 5th, 2013

At the recent 2013 International CES, Broadcom and Samsung announced the world’s first Android 4.0 set top box with Google Mobile Services (GMS). This first-of-its-kind device is based on—you guessed it, MIPS! While dozens of Android set-top boxes already exist in the market, Samsung’s SMT-E5015 SmarTV box is the first to pass the stringent Android [...]

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Students take on the Internet of Things with Imagination’s MetaFlow platform

This post was written by Developer Technology Team on February 4th, 2013

Imagination has a number of close links with universities supporting both research and teaching programmes.  One example of this is the Group Design Project which is done as part of the University of Southampton Electronic and Computer Science undergraduate Master of Electronic Engineering (MEng) courses.  The project lasts for 10 weeks, and the students work [...]

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Simultaneous multithreading in CPUs and its importance for network processing

This post was written by Alexandru Voica on January 23rd, 2013

The Linley Tech Processor two-day conference has grown to feature 25 technical presentations, together with panel discussions, exhibits, and other networking opportunities. It was the best place for Imagination to showcase our Meta advanced simultaneous multithreading CPU technologies as the covered topics ranged from trends in multicore-processor design and programming to “manycore” architectures that address [...]

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Imagination’s MIPS architecture is coming to the universities in Russia and Ukraine

This post was written by Yuri Panchul on January 15th, 2013

Imagination Technologies is working with our partner and licensee Microchip Technology, a leading microcontroller company, to further promote the use of the MIPS® architecture to universities in Russia and Ukraine. Microchip’s PIC32 microcontroller uses the MIPS32® M4K™ core, and development boards based on the PIC32 are ideal vehicles through which students can learn about microcontroller-based [...]

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The continuing evolution of the MIPS Instruction Set Architecture

This post was written by David Lau on December 6th, 2012

Originally created in the early 1980s, the MIPS instruction set architecture is one of the earliest RISC architectures, and is one of the few CPU architectures in wide usage today. To maintain that heritage of usability and appropriateness for modern market segments, the architecture has continued to evolve over time. In the time since I [...]

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Making virtual IP models work for you with Carbon Design Systems and Imagination

This post was written by Alexandru Voica on November 28th, 2012

Just in case you’ve missed it, Carbon Design Systems has recently announced that it is expanding its portfolio by making virtual models available for a wide range of our IP cores, including PowerVR graphics and video cores, Ensigma RPU communications platforms and Meta general-purpose and DSP processors. You can have a look at the extensive [...]

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Imagination’s Meta CPU: advanced simultaneous multithreading

This post was written by Alexandru Voica on October 17th, 2012

In today’s increasingly competitive landscape, edging out other solutions both in benchmarks and in actual real life usage scenarios becomes a matter of efficiently combining the resources at hand to achieve the much-sought higher performance rather than relying on just one factor or performance metric. Therefore, after returning from a successful 2012 Linley Tech 6th [...]

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Android APKs slim down – big is out, small is in!

This post was written by MIPS Developer Team on September 5th, 2012

When Google launched Android, it had a very apparent goal of portability. Starting with the underlying Linux kernel, all layers of Android are designed and implemented to be portable. Android runs on all three major processor architectures – MIPS, Intel and ARM. It also supports a variety of memory configurations, flash storage and graphics processors. [...]

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MIPS gets the gold in the Jelly Bean olympics

This post was written by Amit Rohatgi on August 13th, 2012

Two weeks ago, MIPS and our partner, Karbonn, announced the commercial availability of an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet. It was in fact the first 3rd party Jelly Bean tablet offered for sale in the world.  To be clear, MIPS-Based Karbonn Smart Tab 1 was the first Android 4.1 tablet beyond Google’s Nexus 7 in [...]

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Meta just got a new set of toys: Dolby MS11 certification

This post was written by Alexandru Voica on July 31st, 2012

After looking at the future of the TV market and analysing the potential of Meta, Imagination’s general-purpose processor, it’s high time we underline some of the potential of our CPU offering in the high-definition audio market, more specifically how one can take advantage of the recently achieved Dolby MS11 certifications for applications such as HDTV, [...]

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