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.