Ingenic Semiconductor [SEP] inception
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 system on a chip products including their CPUs and licensed semiconductor intellectual property blocks from third parties, such as Vivante Corporation, commission the fabrication of integrated circuits at semiconductor fabrication plants and sell them.
XBurst microarchitecture.
The XBurst CPU microarchitecture is based upon the MIPS32 revision 1 respectively the MIPS32 revision
Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Renesas Electronics, Freescale Semiconductor and Marvell Technology Group, as well as systems and automotive companies like Mobileye.
Arteris has also signed licenses with Chinese semiconductor companies including Baidu, HiSilicon (Huawei), Actions Semiconductor, Allwinner, InfoTM, Ingenic, Leadcore, Nufront, RDA Semiconductor, Rockchip, Socle and Spreadtrum. 
Other publicly announced licensees of Arteris products include Altera (Intel), Core Logic, CSR, GCT, GUC, iC-Logic, LG, MegaChips, Movidius (Intel)