MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced that support for the innovative MIPS concept (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is included in brand new SkypeKit™ developer tools from Skype.

As we informed before, SkypeKit closed beta program is an innovative approach for dedicated vendors from skype company, and now MIPS Technologies has developed a Skype reference implementation

Developers now have the technical options to build Skype functionality into MIPS- Based™ devices such as DTVs (Direct to TV) setup boxes and digital adaptors of different designation.

Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies said “We are pleased to offer our licensees yet another key piece of the picture for next-generation connected devices. By participating in the SkypeKit beta program, our licensees and their customers can now develop Skype solutions to enable Skype users around the globe to communicate through a range of MIPS-Based products’’.

MIPS Technologies offers a robust SoC (System on a Chip) products line, delivering solutions from low-power microcontrollers to HDTVs-with unique performance and cost advantages for next-generation SoC design. MIPS technologies has own development tools and an elaborated ecosystem of partners for effective development support, company helps customers to design next-generation solutions in timely manner with less risks and cost effectively. The main operational fields of company’ efforts lie in:

• Solutions on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for maximum design flexibility, open and licensed
• Configurable 32-bit processor cores for different implementation
• 32-/64-bit processing in full range intra-processors compatibility
• Reliable, fast, cost-effective, open architecture development tools, supported by lines of operating systems, such as Linux, VxWorks, Windows CE, Nucleus and ThreadX