The prpl Foundation is a non-profit open source software Foundation started by

Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Limited is a British semiconductor and software design company owned by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a private equity fund based in Beijing that is ultimately owned by the Chinese government. With its global headquar ...

and others to encourage use of the

MIPS architecture MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, ...

(and “open to others”), through the promotion of standards and open source solutions, with a particular focus on equipment for

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, networking, and devices for the Internet of Things. The Foundation manages projects in specific topic areas via “PEGs” (prpl Engineer Groups), including groups focused on processor emulation (QEMU), carrier-grade networking (prplOS, based on

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), and virtualization and security. The organization also collects and disseminates information of interest to its members, including patterns in consumer use of smart devices and security issues. In 2016 the organization released a study, "The prpl Foundation Smart Home Security Report". The group also finds and reports security issues in smart devices. Members of prpl include: Verizon, Orange, Vodafone,

Broadcom Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...

Cavium Cavium was a fabless semiconductor company based in San Jose, California, specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs. The company was co-founded in 2000 by Syed B. Ali and M. Raghib Hussain, who w ...

, Ikanos, Imagination Technologies, Ineda Systems,

Ingenic Semiconductor Ingenic Semiconductor is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Beijing, China founded in 2005. They purchased licenses for the MIPS architecture instruction sets in 2009 and design CPU-microarchitectures based on them. They also design ...

MaxLinear MaxLinear is an American hardware company. Founded in 2003, it provides highly integrated radio-frequency (RF) analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for broadband communications applications. It is a New York Stock Exchange-traded comp ...

, Nevales Networks,

PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications, optical networking, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces. On January 15, 2016, ...

, and Qualcomm."Chip firms form prpl foundation to keep MIPS architecture in the pink"
''Gigacom'', Stacey Higginbotham May 22, 2014 The security PEG includes several of the above, as well as CUPP Computing, Elliptic Technologies, Imperas Software
Kernkonzept
and Seltech.

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External links

*{{official website, http://prplfoundation.org/
Open source software supported by prpl Foundation
Computer science organizations MIPS architecture