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News Release from: MIPS Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2001
64bit core enables access packet
processor
MIPS Technologies has licensed the 64bit MIPS64 5Kc core to fabless semiconductor company Wintegra.
MIPS Technologies has licensed the 64bit MIPS64 5Kc core to Wintegra, a fabless semiconductor company that is enabling the next generation of access networks for use in the industry's first access packet processor, WinPath WinPath offers a single chip, cost-efficient solution for converging voice and data in access networking equipment such as base stations, media gateways, access multiplexors, service switches and access routers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"WinPath is a highly integrated chipset based on the MIPS architecture targeted for the communications infrastructure", said analyst Will Straus of Forward Concepts.
"Wintegra's high-impact strike into the mid-range communications equipment sector provides excellent coverage between the MIPS-based high-end carrier/enterprise equipment processor chip sets and consumer communications devices".
"WinPath offers a whole new approach to protocol handling, and the MIPS64 5Kc core's scalability, speed and power efficiency allow us to deliver the performance and flexibility our customers need", said Kobi Ben-Zvi, president and CEO of Wintegra.
Ben-Zvi, formerly in charge of PowerPC development at Motorola, chose the MIPS core because it has the advantage of being synthesisable.
"A MIPS synthesisable core gives us the flexibility to optimise performance, power consumption and die size to suit our needs.
Furthermore, it is foundry-independent, so we were able to choose our fab manufacturing partner, which gives us more control over manufacturing costs and quality".
"The momentum for our 5K core is building, as this is the ninth announced license this year.
This agreement represents yet another important endorsement of the need for 64bit technology in the communications infrastructure marketplace", said Derek Meyer, vice president of worldwide field operations at MIPS Technologies.
"Furthermore, flexibility and control are the hallmarks of our business model, which benefits our customers by providing them better ability to differentiate and to better control over their costs".
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