MIPS wants to build for autonomous systems, not retrofit for it

A broad portfolio and a fab if needed.

March 24, 2026

David Harold

In this conversation with JPR, MIPS CEO Sameer Wasson argues that the company’s future lies in “physical AI”: a stack built around sensing, thinking, acting, and communicating, with robotics as the clearest proving ground. He also lays out how GlobalFoundries ownership and the planned Synopsys Arc assets could accelerate MIPS’s push into AI, custom silicon, and a broader RISC-V portfolio. MIPS CEO Sameer Wasson. (Source: MIPS) At Embedded World 2026, MIPS arrived with two announcements that help frame this conversation between JPR’s David Harold and MIPS’s CEO, Sameer Wasson. The company said it is working with Inova Semiconductors on a

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