Autonomous platforms sense the world around them with a variety of inputs, from radar, lidar, and cameras, to gyroscopes, accelerometers, and atmospheric sensors. These sensors are rapidly increasing in fidelity with more resolution, color depth, accuracy, and increased sampling periods generating exponentially more data. Fusing this data together, establishing priorities and the right data formats, and moving it to the right compute elements is key to enabling accurate, fast decision making in edge platforms.
Today, we offer the MIPS P8700 and I8500 data movement systems to power data intensive automotive, networking, and embedded data center applications. MIPS is integral to managing the dataflow through the compute subsystem, from ADAS systems with our partner, Mobileye, to leading cloud computing providers connecting processing and storage together with MIPS-based data processing units, or smart NICs. The MIPS Sense portfolio enables low-latency data processing with high-reliability and functional safety capabilities, expanding data movement engines into compute subsystems that couple with edge AI engines.
To continue this growth, we’re announcing the development of the MIPS I8600 subsystem for the next generation of autonomous platforms. Designed to accelerate data movement, the MIPS I8600 subsystem is a turn-key accelerator for networking markets that need highly reliable packet processing with support for a variety of market-focused protocols. For example, our industrial ethernet subsystem delivers smart grid protocols, as well as factory automation protocols, combined with fast packet processing and embedded ethernet switch for a robust, secure, embedded network platform.
The MIPS I8600 platform offerings will support communications networking applications with multi-protocol layer switching and 25Gbit MACs for 5G/6G deployments. Predefined configurations with support for CAN-FD, FlexRay, LIN enable automotive applications; all the way to scale-up/scale-out network acceleration in the datacenter with UltraEthernet and UAL. The MIPS I8600 range of compute subsystems will be available for customer evaluation in mid-2025, delivering significantly higher performance for networking packet processing than legacy, proprietary applications cores. With 4-way multi-threading capabilities, scalable coherent clusters, protocol stacks, middleware, and API support, MIPS data movement systems increase performance and efficiency.
MIPS data movement subsystems, based on the open-specification RISC-V instruction set, are easy to adopt and reduce time to market by providing proven solutions to our customers for building their vision for technology. MIPS is an exhibitor at Embedded World 2025 from March 11th – 13th, in Nuremburg, Germany. To request a meeting, please contact us here: MIPs.com/events
