According to the announcement of MIPS Technologies on Tuesday, it has
Image via Wikipediadeclared that it is porting Google's Android 3.0 OS, which is nicknamed Honeycomb, in order to work better with its microprocessors. The V.P. of MIPS, Art Swift, expected that this port could lead to do better and faster release of Honeycomb tablets which will be based on MIPS processors. Whereas, it was also the demand of customers to adopt the Honeycomb support, as this porting to the OS will significantly boost up the speed of tablet development.
Honeycomb is currently operating on MIPS processors internally too, but additional enhancement is definitely required, claimed Swift. He was not much sure or precise on whether how long exactly could this porting take to finish, however he did gave a rough estimation of around 60 to 90 days for finishing the porting with earlier versions of Android.
The processers of MIPS are being installed in quite a few tablets, including Cruz from Velocity Micro. The previous versions of Android were already been ported to work with MIPS processors each time around their release. As Google has not kept Honeycomb open sourced, MIPS have a signed license for its deals with Google to acquire its operating system.
This porting of Honeycomb might just be the next step forward for MIPS as it has made several failed attempts in order to try establishing a market for itself in the smartphone and tablet markets, but it has already been under enemy control of ARM. And it is also noticeable, that ARM already runs Honeycomb on most of its ARM-based tablets, which are ported to work with Intel's x86 chips.
MIPS just like its complete rival ARM, licenses the processor designs to chip and device makers. MIPS is very reputable company and is well-known in the market areas like networking and wireless communications, moreover MIPS processors are also frequently used in T.V.’s, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes too.
MIPS processors are widely acknowledged as their family of MIPS32 1074K is now being used in the upcoming mobile devices along with the 1074K family which is has as higher speed as up to 1.5GHz and also has the functions of multithreading. Whereas, the company did also made an announcement in the start of this month that it is working on the development of its new 64-bit processor cores, code-named Prodigy until development, in attempts to fasten the performance of its processors.
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