Altair Semiconductor to Bring Its Leading LTE Chipset to MIPS-Based(TM) Android(TM) 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Tablets From Ing...
February 22 2012 - 8:00AM
Altair Semiconductor, MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), and
Ingenic Semiconductor today announced that they are bringing
Altair's MIPS-Based™ FourGee™ LTE chipset to MIPS-Based Android™
4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" tablets from Ingenic. Altair is a leading
developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high-performance
4G LTE chipsets, and Ingenic Semiconductor is a leading China-based
CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications. Both companies'
products are based on the industry-standard MIPS® architecture from
MIPS Technologies. Combining their processors, the new tablet will
be the first to leverage the MIPS architecture for both baseband
and applications processing.
Originally announced in December 2011, the Ingenic tablet is the
world's first Android 4.0 tablet. During Mobile World Congress,
being held February 27 - March 1, 2012 in Barcelona, MIPS and
Altair will demonstrate a prototype of the new solution integrating
the Ingenic tablet with Altair's FourGee™ chipset. The companies
expect that a version of the tablet with LTE on-board will sample
to customers in the second quarter of this year, with potential
commercial availability in the second half of 2012.
"We are excited to add Android tablets to the growing list of
products, including USB dongles, portable hotspots and smartphones,
which feature Altair's low power, high-performance LTE chipsets.
The close cooperation between Altair, Ingenic and MIPS holds great
promise for the industry, since we share a vision of delivering a
combination of high performance, power efficiency and lower total
cost of ownership," said Eran Eshed, co-founder and vice president
of marketing and business development at Altair Semiconductor.
"Our MIPS-Based Android 4.0 tablet, which features 1GHz
performance along with an innovative ultra-low-power pipelining
architecture, is already in production with multiple OEMs. When we
made the decision to add 4G connectivity to this groundbreaking
tablet, it was clear that Altair was the most suitable partner for
Ingenic. Like Ingenic's solutions, Altair's processors feature
extremely high-performance and ultra-low power capabilities, and as
fellow MIPS licensees, it is easy for us to work together to speed
time to market," said Qiang Liu, chairman and CEO, Ingenic
Semiconductor.
"Altair and Ingenic are innovative and forward-thinking MIPS
licensees who realized early the benefits of leveraging the
performance-efficient MIPS architecture for mobile device
development. As a result, these two companies are offering low
power, high performance products that offer differentiation for
their customers in a highly competitive and fast-moving market,"
said Gideon Intrater, vice president of marketing, MIPS
Technologies.
About Altair Semiconductor
Altair Semiconductor is a leading developer of ultra-low power,
small footprint and high performance 4G semiconductors. Altair's
chipsets can be found in approximately 30 end-user devices -
ranging from USB dongles to smartphones - built by its more than 15
customers across North America, Europe, China, India and Taiwan -
making it one of the only TDD/FDD LTE chipset manufacturers in
the world with commercially available products. Altair's
comprehensive product portfolio includes baseband processors,
multi-band RF transceivers for both FDD and TDD bands, and a range
of reference hardware and product level protocol stack software.
Based on a novel, proprietary Software Defined Radio (SDR)
processor, codenamed "O[2]P™", Altair's products are among the
smallest and most highly power optimized in the industry, offering
a highly competitive combination of flexibility and performance.
For more information, visit the company's website at
www.altair-semi.com. Follow Altair on Twitter: @AltairSemi.
About Ingenic Semiconductor
Ingenic Semiconductor was founded in Beijing in 2005 to develop
innovative processor technology. Based on the MIPS architecture,
Ingenic designs its own CPU core called XBurst. The XBurst CPU
adopts an innovative micro-architecture which consumes very little
power under high performance. Powered by the XBurst CPU, the
company's JZ47xx series application processors are widely deployed
in embedded devices and consumer electronic products including
PMPs, educational electronic devices, eBooks, biometrics and more,
with more than 30 million units shipped to-date. For more
information, visit http://www.ingenic.cn/.
About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS) is a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
home, networking and mobile applications. The MIPS architecture
powers some of the world's most popular products, including
broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices
from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top
boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit
microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from
Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide. For
more information, contact (408) 530-5000 or visit www.mips.com.
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MIPS Technologies, Inc.
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