By Ojo-Yoshida Report Editors
Ahead of the Embedded World show in Germany last week, MIPS rolled out its Atlas portfolio, which the company is aiming at a range of markets and applications looking for safe, secure and efficient physical AI at the edge, according to a company statement.
MIPS CEO Sameer Wasson was at the company’s booth in Nuremberg to further explain how the Atlas portfolio marked the next step in its continuing evolution and movement towards providing systems for autonomous platforms and the automotive, industrial and embedded markets.
Responding to questions from our editors as part of the Ojo-Yoshida Report’s Hot Stuff from the Embedded World 2025 program, Wasson described MIPS’ move from “product-to-IP-and-back-to -product” journey as indicative of the industry’s migration to bringing Edge AI into actual usage. Wasson said Edge AI has been extensively discussed now for years, which was necessary for its take-off, but noted that the consumers and enterprise customers are now ready for what he described as real-use cases.
Click below for the Embedded World Hot Stuff discussion with Wasson.
“A lot of the AI buzz so far has been on training and inference in the data center for regular customers and the industry, but for AI to realized in use cases, it needs to be around us, communicating in real time or moving in real time,” Wasson said. “At MIPS, we take this very seriously. So, anything that involves motor control or motion control with AI is where we are trying to focus the company and starting to build products.”
The Atlas portfolio, which includes the MIPS M8500 silicon, fits into this category. The Atlas products offer what the company described as “turn-key enablement for the three categories of computing that make up physical AI – Sense, Think, and Act.” The portfolio includes software and compute subsystems, and evaluation boards, which the company said it expects to have available by the fourth quarter. The reference silicon related to M8500 would be available in the first half of 2026 with production starting in 2027.
“The need for efficient autonomous platforms to advance next-generation driverless vehicles, factory automation, and many other applications is directly aligned with the MIPS Atlas portfolio,” Wasson said. “Our core competencies of safety, efficient data processing and experience in autonomy have enabled us to expand our portfolio with real-time intelligence that is the essential tech stack for Physical AI platforms. MIPS customers can take our compute subsystems with software stacks as a turnkey solution to build physical AI platforms.”
The Hot Stuff discussion follows:
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