SUNNYVALE, Calif.– July 26, 2010 – 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, announced that support for the MIPS® architecture is included in new SkypeKit™ developer tools available now from Skype. Through the SkypeKit closed beta program, MIPS Technologies has developed a Skype reference implementation for the MIPS® architecture—the leading architecture for the digital home.

Skype is software used by individuals and businesses to make video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Developers now have the ability to build Skype functionality into MIPS-Based™ devices such as DTVs, set-top boxes and digital media adaptors.

According to Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies, “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. The MIPS architecture offers compelling performance and power consumption advantages. These advantages, together with the work we are doing with platforms such as Skype, Android™, Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, Yahoo! TV Widgets and others, are enabling our customers to quickly and easily create the next generation of innovative SoCs.”

For more information on the MIPS-Based reference platform with Skype functionality, or for MIPS licensees wishing to schedule a demonstration, email info@mips.com.

About MIPS Technologies, Inc.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: 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.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif, July 26. Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Foveon Inc., a world innovator in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems, has taped out its newest generation direct image sensor using Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer® solution. The Foveon X3® direct image sensor, used in high end consumer cameras such as Sigma’s SD15 digital SLR camera, has over 14 million pixels and is implemented on a 180 nanometer (nm) CMOS die. Foveon chose Synopsys’ custom design solution to replace its existing solution to accelerate time to tapeout. The open environment of the Custom Designer solution provided Foveon with a rapid, low risk path to migrate from its incumbent solution and complete tapeout in fewer than two months.

“We switched to Synopsys’ custom solution because it offered greater productivity for our large, complex designs compared to our previous solution,” said Andrew Cole, general manager and vice president of engineering at Foveon. “We also found that Custom Designer’s open, standards based environment made migration straightforward, with no impact to our design schedules. This was an important factor in our decision to adopt Synopsys.”

The total time to completely transition to Custom Designer and tape out was less than two months. This effort included the development of an interoperable process design kit (iPDK), verification of layout against the legacy design database, and full netlist simulation to verify accuracy of the migrated schematic. Custom Designer’s modern architecture accelerated Foveon’s deployment, allowing its designers to easily take advantage of its advanced layout features and streamlined user interface.

“Synopsys’ comprehensive custom design solution is enabling higher productivity and accelerating time to tapeout for custom digital designs such as Foveon’s X3 direct image sensor,” said Bijan Kiani, vice president of product marketing at Synopsys. “Furthermore, Custom Designer’s open, standards-based environment lowers the barriers to adopting a more productive, non proprietary custom solution.”

Synopsys’ custom solution for front end design and simulation consists of the Custom Designer Schematic Editor (SE) with simulation and analysis environment, HSPICE® circuit simulator, CustomSim™ FastSPICE simulator and Custom WaveView waveform analyser. The Synopsys custom physical design and verification flow consists of the Custom Designer Layout Editor (LE) with schematic driven Layout (SDL) and SmartDRD design rule driven technology, IC Validator physical verification tool and StarRC™ parasitic extraction tool.

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys’ comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system to silicon verification and time to results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 65 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.