MIPS has licensed its 64-bit instruction set architecture to Advanced Micro Devices, the firm said today.
It will use the MIPS licence to make 64-bit chips as embedded devices aimed at the set top box and PDA marketplace, with engineers from Alchemy Semi – which AMD acquired earlier this year - working on designs.
These so called "informaiton appliances" will include high quality multimeda, encryption and high speed data links, said AMD.
Like Intel, AMD wants a tasty slice of the embedded and PDA marketplace, and it hopes to sell 64-bit processors it designs, and using the MIPS core, to customers making high speed devices.
News source: The Inquirer
It will use the MIPS licence to make 64-bit chips as embedded devices aimed at the set top box and PDA marketplace, with engineers from Alchemy Semi – which AMD acquired earlier this year - working on designs.
These so called "informaiton appliances" will include high quality multimeda, encryption and high speed data links, said AMD.
Like Intel, AMD wants a tasty slice of the embedded and PDA marketplace, and it hopes to sell 64-bit processors it designs, and using the MIPS core, to customers making high speed devices.
News source: The Inquirer
The grim outlook in the global space comes as a major shift is under way in Australia's domain industry, which will mean Melbourne IT will lose its position as the sole registrar of popular .com.au names, and RegistrarsAsia will instead become the central registry for all .au names.
Melbourne IT group manager Theo Hnarakis said his company would prosper because many of its wholesale and retail customers were focused on "real" businesses, instead of prospective registrations.
Adrian Kinderis, managing director of RegistrarsAsia, was also untroubled.
"The reductions will continue for a little while longer, but in two to three months you'll see it starting to expand," he said.
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