Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom firms join MIPS open-source push

Qualcomm Atheros, Lantiq (part of Intel) and Broadcom have appointed representatives to the board of the Prpl (‘purple’) Foundation, organisation set-up by Imagination Technologies to support open-source software on the MIPS architecture.

At the same time, CUPP Computing, Elliptic Technologies, Imperas Software, Kernkonzept and Seltech joined the foundation at lower levels.

“Newcomers to the prpl Foundation’s board of directors will participate at the executive level and appoint representatives to the technical steering committee and to engineering groups including the security, prplWrt, and QEMU (quick emulator) engineering groups”, said the Foundation.

Prpl, is open to other architectures, and focusses on “datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualised architectures”, it said. Initial domains onm its hit list are: datacenter, networking, storage, connected consumer, embedded and IoT.