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MIPS Releases P8700, Industry’s First High-Performance RISC-V Automotive Processor for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles

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MIPS Releases P8700, Industry’s First High-Performance RISC-V Automotive Processor for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – Media OutReach Newswire – November 22, 2024 – MIPSa leading developer of efficient and configurable IP computing cores, today announced the general availability (GA) release of the MIPS P8700 Series RISC-V processor. Designed to meet the low-latency, highly-intensive data movement requirements of the most advanced automotive applications, such as ADAS and autonomous vehicles (AV), the P8700 offers industry-leading accelerated computing, energy efficiency and scalability.

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Typical solutions for ADAS and autonomous driving rely on a brute-force approach of incorporating more cores at higher clock rates, leading to synthetic performance, albeit unrealistic and unrealized. The P8700, with its multi-threaded and energy-efficient architecture, enables MIPS customers to implement fewer CPU cores and a much lower thermal design power (TDP) than current solutions on the market, enabling OEMs to develop ADAS solutions in an affordable and highly scalable way. It also alleviates system bottlenecks of data movement inefficiencies, providing a highly efficient, optimized and low power latency sensitive solution specifically tailored for disruption-laden multi-sensor platforms.

For ADAS L2+ systems with Autonomous AI software stack, the MIPS P8700 can also offload basic processing elements that cannot be easily quantified in deep learning and reduced by sparsity-based convolution processing functions, resulting in a utilization and better AI Stack software efficiency by >30%.

“The automotive market requires processors that can process a large amount of data from multiple sensors in real-time and feed AI accelerators to process it efficiently,” said Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS. “MIPS Multi-threading and other architectural hooks tailored for automotive applications make it a compelling core for data-intensive workloads. This will enable automotive OEMs to have high-performance computing systems that consume less power and make better use of AI accelerators.”

The MIPS P8700 core, with multi-core/multi-cluster and multi-threaded processor IP based on RISC-V ISA, is now progressing to series production with several major OEMs. Key customers like Mobileye (Nasdaq: MBLY) have adopted this approach for future products for self-driving vehicles and highly automated driving systems.

“MIPS has been a key contributor to our success with EyeQ systems-on-chip for ADAS and autonomous vehicles,” said Elchanan Rushinek, executive vice president of engineering for Mobileye. “The launch of the MIPS P8700 RISC-V core will contribute to our continued development for global automakers, enabling higher performance and excellent cost and power efficiency.”

The P8700 series is a high-performance, isolated processor that implements the RISC-V RV64GC architecture, including new processor and system-level features designed for performance, power, area form factors and proven additional features built on micro-micro -Old MIPS. architecture implemented in more than 30 car models today in the global OEM market. Designed to deliver industry-leading compute density, the latest MIPS processor leverages three key architectural features, including:

  • MIPS multi-threading out of order – allows multiple instructions from multiple threads (harts) to be executed in each clock cycle, providing higher CPU utilization and efficiency.
  • Coherent multi-core, multi-cluster – The P8700 Series scales up to 6 coherent P8700 cores in a cluster, with each cluster supporting direct-attach accelerators.
  • Functional safety – designed to meet the functional safety standard ASIL-B(D) (ISO26262) by incorporating several fault detection capabilities such as end-to-end parity protection on the address and data buses, parity protection on software visible registers, fault bus for reporting system faults and more

The MIPS P8700 processor is now available in the wider market, with key partnerships already in place. Deliveries with OEM releases are expected soon.

For more information on the MIPS P8700, please visit https://mips.com/markets/automotive/.

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MIPS accelerates computing density in the automotive, cloud and embedded markets. Giving customers the freedom to build unique products for specific workloads, MIPS’ leading cores are configurable, efficient and easy to deploy. Its multi-threading methodology provides advanced scalability and the ability to move and process data efficiently and faster. The company’s computing DNA spans three decades, with billions of MIPS-based chips shipped to date. For more information, visit .