英國芯片制造商Imagination Technologies在今年11月份早前就宣布將在對MIPS的收購中支出6000萬美元，誰知半路殺出另一家DSP IP芯片方案企業(yè)CEVA，CEVA決定以7500萬美元從Imagination手中搶購MIPS。隨后Imagination本周日再度殺回，決定以 8000萬美元爭回屬于自己的東西，并且修改了相關(guān)收購材料。今天宣布與MIPS再度達(dá)成修訂后的一致協(xié)議。 Imagination最富盛名的是其PowerVR系列顯示芯片技術(shù)，是當(dāng)今用于智能手機(jī)和移動設(shè)備嵌入系統(tǒng)中的顯示芯片主力?；贛IPS架構(gòu)的處理器也在多種設(shè)備上馳騁多年，從PS2游戲機(jī)到超級計算機(jī)，現(xiàn)在主要的市場則是數(shù)字電視和機(jī)頂盒產(chǎn)品，當(dāng)然其中一些也運(yùn)行Android操作系統(tǒng)。 收購的內(nèi)容包括了MIPS的運(yùn)營業(yè)務(wù)，當(dāng)然還有MIPS的82項(xiàng)核心專利，以及其余500項(xiàng)相關(guān)專利的使用許可權(quán)。據(jù)Imagination周一的聲明所說，MIPS處理器授權(quán)業(yè)務(wù)至6月30日的一年期間收益為6000萬美元，稅前虧損900萬美元。 MIPS在聲明中說，Imagination修改了收購的出價，“將收購價格加至8000萬美元”。除了價格之外，其他相關(guān)材料和收購內(nèi)容是否有修改目前尚不清楚。 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 參考英文原文：Imagination raises bid for MIPS,by Peter Clarke

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{pagination} Imagination raises bid for MIPS Peter Clarke LONDON – Imagination Technologies Group, the graphics processor IP licensor, has raised its bid for processor IP company MIPS Technologies Inc. to $80 million in an attempt to outbid rival Ceva Inc. Imagination (Kings Langley, England) originally bid $60 million to buy MIPS's operating business and certain patents while another U.K. company, ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), would lead a consortium called Bridge Crossing that would acquire rights to major part of the MIPS portfolio of patents. Bridge Crossing would pay $350 million in cash to purchase the rights to the MIPS portfolio, of which ARM will contribute $167.5 million. Ceva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) then offered $75 million for the operating business of MIPS (Sunnyvale, Calif.) on a similar basis to the Imagination bid. Imagination said Monday (Dec. 10) that has signed a revised agreement for $80 million in cash with all the other terms and conditions of the acquisition remaining the same as for the previous bid. In the year to June 30, 2012 MIPS made a loss before tax of $9 million on revenues of $60 million and on Sept. 30, 2012 MIPS had gross assets of about $20 million excluding cash and short-term investments, Imagination said. Imagination added that if its bid receives approval from MIPS' shareholders and meets other necessary conditions the deal is expected to complete during the first quarter of 2013.