Broadcom has extended its relationship with MIPS Technologies. The microprocessor IP firm announced that Broadcom will license the entire range of MIPS32 processor cores to power next-generation products for business, service provider and consumer markets.

Broadcom's licence includes MIPS' 34K, 24K, 24KE, 4KE, 4KS, M4K, and ProSeries families of processor cores.

Broadcom and MIPS are not the only companies renewing a processor license of late.  Last week, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced it had obtained a company-wide license to Tensilica's Xtensa LX2 configurable processor.

The deal was an extension of their ongoing relationship: Marvell had already been using Tensilica's earlier Xtensa processors in various other applications and products.