MIPS Technologies and Imagination have announced an alliance for the development of their future products. In fact, SoC (System on a Chip) should therefore combine type processors with MIPS PowerVR graphics chips, even if everything is not exclusive and that ARM SoC / PowerVR should continue to be offered.

Recall that produces MIPS processors for the embedded world, and found this type of chips in routers, in video decoders or even the world video games (PSP). Fleas Imagination Technologies, after a stint in our PCs in the late 1990s, are found in smartphones but also in some PCs via the GMA 500 d Intel.

By combining MIPS and good decoding skills video and 3D PowerVR, both companies want to compete with ARM, which has in recent years its own design of video chips, used by more and more manufacturers. Ultimately, it is mostly a good thing to try to block the hegemony of ARM in the mobile world, offering an effective alternative.