applications in Japan -- will coexist with Microsoft's Windows Automotive OS. This multi-OS software platform running on the high-performance MIPS processor architecture will enable user applications, such as Internet and network connectivity, along with the display of audio and video content, the companies say.
"This key design win by Toshiba extends their market leadership in the fast-growing automotive telematics market," said Jack Browne, vice president of worldwide sales at MIPS Technologies. "Toshiba continues to leverage its ongoing investment in the MIPS architecture to offer its customers dynamic application performance that meets the needs of a broad range of consumer applications, such as car devices. We applaud this latest success and look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship."
In September, Microsoft and the T-Engine Forum
announced a joint project through which Windows CE .NET will be enabled to coexist with the T-Engine Forum's TRON-based T-Kernel operating system on consumer device hardware. That project's initial effort will be to create an environment which supports the two software platforms on T-Engine's reference hardware, the companies said.
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