(Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced availability of the Android(TM) platform on its industry-standard MIPS(R) architecture. The company also announced it will make the MIPS-optimized source code publicly available within 60 days. This move, backed by several ecosystem partners--with more to come--brings Android to the vast MIPS development community across the world, which can now begin using this revolutionary platform for consumer devices such as DTVs, mobile internet devices (MIDs), digital picture frames (DPFs) and set-top boxes.
Separately today, MIPS announced that its licensees are demonstrating Android running on MIPS-Based(TM) products at COMPUTEX TAIPEI. Additionally, the company announced it has joined the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), an organization focused on standardization and development of Android platforms for embedded devices beyond mobile handsets.
Android provides a common framework across devices to leverage the large number of software application developers that are writing applications for the Android market. Initially finding success in the mobile phone market, Android is now set to move into other digital consumer devices. With MIPS Technologies' leadership position in the digital home, this announcement lays the groundwork to enable Android for these products. Android's ready-to-use software stack provides a device-agnostic application development platform, and a common framework for the industry. With Android and the dynamic open source development community around it, developers can easily and quickly create new applications and OEMs can leverage the growing set of applications for their devices. With the MIPS ecosystem around Android, OEMs will be able to quickly optimize Android for their specific platforms.
"In the future, almost every consumer device will be connected to the Internet and its wide array of content, delivering a wealth of applications for a richer user experience," said Rich Wawrzyniak, senior analyst, ASIC and SoC, Semico Research Corporation. "Leveraging Android to quickly and easily bring new and innovative applications and user interfaces to devices beyond the mobile phone is a very appealing proposition for consumers. Android also removes applications from their ties to specific hardware systems and opens the market for companies like MIPS Technologies to move into new market segments. I can understand why MIPS' partners and licensees are excited about Android on MIPS.
