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To: kane who wrote (10044)2/1/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Steve Lewis  Read Replies (1) of 11555
 
>MIPs makes alot of different licensable designs. The
>highend/expensive MIPS Risc chips that go into things
>like SGI boxes are made by NEC/Toshiba (as founderies).

MIPS licenses its architecture and manages its evolution.
However NEC and Toshiba do their own designs and
manufacture under their own names.

Yes, as designers & foundrys:

01.29.99
MIPS ANNCS LICENSING AGRMTS WITH NEC & TOSHIBA

Mountain View, CA -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced that NEC
Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, two of the world's leading
semiconductor manufacturers, have secured licenses for MIPS Technologies'
next generation 64-bit design, code named Ruby.

MIPS Technologies' CEO, John Bourgoin, said, "The commitment of NEC and
Toshiba to MIPS Technologies' advanced processors, well into the next
millennium, demonstrates both the value of the MIPS architecture and the
strength of MIPS Technologies as an intellectual property supplier and as
the primary architect of 64-bit technology for the embedded market."
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