MIPS Technologies announced today that long-time MIPS licensee Cavium Networks has reaffirmed its commitment to the MIPS architecture by renewing its license of the high-performance MIPS64 architecture.

"We are pleased to reaffirm our commitment to the ultra-high performance MIPS64 architecture for future generations of our groundbreaking OCTEON products. As Cavium's solutions gain increasing traction for a wide range of networking and communications applications, we will continue to leverage the MIPS architecture, which delivers high performance, energy efficiency and an unsurpassed ecosystem for networking and communications," said Rajiv Khemani, VP and GM, Networking and Communications, Cavium Networks.

"Cavium Networks takes full advantage of the flexibility afforded by a MIPS architecture license, developing some of the industry's highest performance and most advanced multicore processors for networking, wireless and storage. The efficient and high-performance MIPS architecture is increasingly the architecture of choice for these applications, especially as data and video traffic increases across wired and mobile networks. We look forward to working closely with Cavium as its MIPS-Based solutions gain even stronger market traction," said Art Swift, vice president of marketing and business development, MIPS Technologies.

The MIPS64 architecture provides a high level of performance for applications including networking and computing. Incorporating powerful features, standardizing privileged mode instructions, supporting past ISAs and providing an upgrade path from the MIPS32 architecture, the MIPS64 architecture provides a solid high-performance foundation for future MIPS processor-based development.

Cavium's OCTEON multi-core processor family, based on the MIPS64 architecture, offers a scalable, high-performance, low-power solution for intelligent networking applications ranging from 100Mbps to 40Gbps. The OCTEON processors have been widely adopted in mainstream and leading-performance routers, switches, storage networking equipment, security appliances, data-center equipment, and a broad range of 3G, WiMAX and LTE infrastructure equipment including base stations, radio network controllers, aggregation systems, mobile subscriber gateways and deep packet inspection (DPI) equipment.