Toshiba has joined the Wind River MIPS Centre of Excellence semiconductor partner program. The two companies have signed a multi-year agreement to enable the development, optimisation, marketing, and distribution of Wind River's range of embedded software products and development tools across Toshiba's TX System RISC processors.

The partnership is part of Wind River's strategy to build close relationships with key semiconductor partners and targets products in the digital consumer electronics market including those in the digital imaging, broadband access, and digital audio-video (AV) market segments.