MIPS Technologies, Inc, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc, was an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it.
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18 Facts About MIPS Technologies
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MIPS Technologies provides processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking, embedded, Internet of things and mobile applications.
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MIPS Technologies was founded in 1984 to commercialize the work being carried out at Stanford University on the MIPS Technologies architecture, a pioneering RISC design.
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MIPS Technologies generated intense interest in the late 1980s, seeing design wins with Digital Equipment Corporation and Silicon Graphics, among others.
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MIPS Technologies was purchased by SGI in 1992, by that time its only major customer, and won several new designs in the game console space.
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Wave declared bankruptcy in 2020, emerging in 2021 as MIPS Technologies and announcing that the MIPS Technologies architecture was being abandoned in favor of RISC-V designs.
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MIPS Technologies was replaced by Bob Miller, a former senior IBM and Data General executive.
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MIPS Technologies found itself unable to compete in the computer market against much larger companies and was struggling to support the costs of developing both the chips and the systems .
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In early 2008 MIPS Technologies laid off 28 employees from its processor business group.
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MIPS Technologies created the processor architecture that is licensed to chip makers.
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MIPS Technologies licensed its 32- and 64-bit architectures as well as 32-bit cores.
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MIPS Technologies32 architecture is a high-performance 32-bit instruction set architecture that is used in applications such as 32-bit microcontrollers, home entertainment, home networking devices and mobile designs.
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MIPS Technologies64 architecture is a high performance 64-bit instruction set architecture that is widely used in networking infrastructure equipment through MIPS Technologies licensees such as Cavium Networks and Broadcom.
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MIPS Technologies had a strong customer licensee base in home electronics and portable media players; for example, 75 percent of Blu-ray Disc players were running on MIPS Technologies processors.
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Licensees using MIPS Technologies to build smartphones and tablets include Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor.
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MIPS Technologies originally ported Android to its architecture for embedded products beyond the mobile handset, where it was originally targeted by Google but MIPS Technologies support was dropped in 2018.
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