Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. and MIPS Technologies Inc. announced the formation of an alliance of silicon vendors to advance the MIPS architecture and the Microsoft Windows CE.NET operating system.

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MIPS Alliance for Windows CE members include:

• ADMtek Inc.

• AMD Inc.

• ATI Technologies Inc.

• Broadcom Corp.

• Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

• NEC Electronics Corp.

• PMC-Sierra Inc.

• Texas Instruments Inc.

• Toshiba Corp.

In a joint release announcing the formation of the alliance, the companies say that as a result of the alliance, companies such as Toshiba have dedicated engineering and marketing resources to optimize the Windows CE .NET platform for the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures.