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MIPS is back this year At CES to show us how far they have reached with their Android work. The company has unveiled a new SmartCE (Connected Entertainment) platform. SmartCE is designed to provide a connected experience with integrated support for Home Jinni ConnecTV application, Adobe Flash Platform for TV, Android, Skype, social media and other platforms. According to MIPS president Art Swift, SmartCE complements other connected platforms like Yahoo! Connected TV and can be extended to Google TV.

MIPS and SysDSoft have announced that they have made a break through using Android technology. SysDSoft a supplier of mobile WiMAX and LTE embedded software solution for 4G has collaborated with MIPS to develop the industry’s first LTE protocol stack ported to the Android platform. A break through which see MIPS move closer to becoming major player in Android and 4G solutions.

MIPS announced this week that they are forming a collaborative partnership with Imagination Technologies.  Both companies will combine their specialist areas; MIPS, a specialist in processor architecture and cores for connected home devices and Imagination, a specialist in communication and multimedia (graphics and video) and the owners of POWERVR^tm, a Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE) base graphic accelerator.  MIPS

With the potential of being the platform for the next generation of internet-connected digital home, MIPS technology announced that it had started an Android early access program.  The program allows key customers and partners access to MIPS Android technology, and to take Android into the digital home.  At this year’s CE show MIPS along with ot

MIPS and Yahoo have partnered to develop a platform with Yahoo Widgets already integrated. The agreement is that MIPS will develop an optimised reference platform running the Yahoo Widget Engine for digital TV and set-top box applications.  This partnership will enable vendors to develop consumer solutions based on the MIPS architecture incorporating Yahoo Widget Engine.

MIPS Technologies announced that Taiwan-based ALi Corporation has joined MIPS Technologies' Early Access Program for the Android platform(tm) on the MIPS(r) architecture.  The Early Access Program provides a set of key strategic customers and partners access to specific Android on MIPS hardware and code optimizations and enhancements before they become publicly available. These customers -- including RMI Corporation and Sigma Designs -- are working closely with MIPS' engineering team, providing critical feedback and market expertise to drive Android beyond mobile handsets.

MIPS Technologies and Sigma Designs have announced their collaboration on bringing a full high-definition (HD) experience to the revolutionary Android platform. Both companies are leaders in their respective fields.  Sigma Designs is a leader in digital media processing system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for consumer electronics and MIPS Technologies is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications.

Leading electronics architecture and processor supplier MIPS Technologies as appointed Art Swift as vice president of Marketing.  Art will lead MIPS marketing efforts in IP business.