Provider of processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking, and mobile applications MIPS Technologies has entered into a license agreement with Myriad Group AG stipulating that MIPS will make Myriad’s Dalvik Turbo Virtual Machine available to its licensees as part of its standard distribution of Android for the MIPS architecture. The Dalvik Turbo method-based virtual machine can replace standard Android Dalvik engines and accelerate performance by as much as five times on real-world Android applications. As per the agreement, MIPS Technologies and Myriad Group plan to work together to support the Dalvik Turbo VM on current and future versions of the Android platform. The agreement also includes ongoing support for MIPS architectural features such as multi-threading and multiprocessing. In the future, Myriad will also provide optimized support for the MIPS architecture on its other products for Java and Android. For more details, visit http://developer.mips.com/.

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