SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 6, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that Altera Corporation licensed its MIPS32® architecture, marking the entry of the MIPS® architecture into the FPGA channel.

“The MIPS architecture is firmly established within many networking, communications and multimedia systems, and our decision to license the MIPS32 architecture allows us to provide more options for FPGA customers in these markets,” said Vince Hu, vice president of product and corporate marketing, Altera.

Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies, added, “We are excited that Altera is employing the MIPS architecture to offer a wider range of solutions to designers. This license has the potential to broaden MIPS’ user base, expand our already broad ecosystem and further proliferate the MIPS architecture.”

According to Joseph Byrne, senior analyst for The Linley Group and co-author of A Guide to CPU Cores and Processor IP, “MIPS Technologies’ processor cores have long been known for their high performance for a wide range of consumer multimedia, networking and communications applications. The company’s technology is already an industry standard for ASICs used in these applications. By joining forces with Altera, a leader in the FPGA market, there is great potential for much more widespread adoption.”

About MIPS Technologies, Inc.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world’s most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets. These include 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.

San Jose, CA, October 6, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the first ATA874x single-chip UHF ASK/FSK RF transmitter family targeting a broad range of proprietary wireless industrial and consumer applications such as metering, alarm systems and home control applications. This new AVR® product family offers industry-leading RF performance operating in the license-free ISM frequency bands (868 to 928 MHz, 433 MHz, and 315 MHz).

As a well-known market player in smart metering and home automation with its wireless IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee® products, Atmel now takes the additional step to address the requirements in the diversified proprietary wireless market segments.

With a low-power AVR CPU, a highly effective RF transmitter, and a sleep-mode power consumption of only 160 nA, the ATA874x family members are uniquely optimized to address battery-driven applications such as remote controls or garage door openers. The tiny QFN24 packages, measuring only 5 mm x 5 mm, allow the creation of extremely small designs at highly competitive costs. Customers can benefit from a bill of material (BOM) cost savings of up to 30 percent and board-area savings of up to 50 percent, when compared with conventional solutions.

These new ATA874x devices are highly integrated, and incorporate Atmel’s well-accepted RF transmitter technology that have sold over 50 million units to date.

The ATA874x devices offer maximum flexibility using the ATtiny44V CPU, allowing in-system flash memory re-programming. By executing powerful instructions in a single-clock cycle, the ATtiny44V achieves throughputs approaching 1 MIPS per MHz that enable system designers to optimize power consumption versus processing speed. The powerful AVR controller simplifies hardware and software designs.

The key features of Atmel’s new highly-integrated, microcontroller-based RF solution include proven technologies shipped in various products since 2001. The market-leading 8-bit microcontroller AVR CPU has been incorporated into countless products and Atmel has shipped more than a billion units. Atmel’s RF technology has satisfied even the strictest quality and reliability demands of the automotive market. Customers that have worked with AVR or earlier RF products can reuse existing RF transmitter or AVR designs and software, thus reducing both development costs and time-to-market.
The ATA874x single-chip narrow band transmitter family complements the well-established Atmel ISM band receivers, such as ATA8201 and ATA8202 or ATA8203/4/5, providing a total end-to-end solution to its customers.

Availability and Pricing
Samples of the ATA874x family are now available in small-outline QFN24 packages. Pricing starts at USD $1 for quantities of 200k. To simplify and accelerate product design, a complete design kit for uni-directional RF applications, as well as Atmel’s well-known AVR Studio® for new software development (STK512-EKx-IND), are available for customer lab measurements and performance evaluations.

Additional Information:
More information on Atmel’s AVR microcontroller family ATA874x with RF transmitter functionality is available at:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4634 (ATA8741)
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4635 (ATA8742)
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4636 (ATA8743)

Footnote
ASK = Amplitude Shift Keying
BOM = Bill of Materials
FSK = Frequency Shift Keying
ISP = In-System Programming
MIPS = Million Instructions Per Second
QFN = Quad Flat No leads
UHF = Ultra High Frequency
SPI = Serial Peripheral Interface

About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry’s broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.