MIPS may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages, MIPS is a microprocessor architecture using the RISC instruction set, introduced in 1985. It began as a research project led by John Hennessey at Stanford University in 1981, and is developed by MIPS technologies, a US technology manufacturer. It was designed for embedded devices such as the Nintendo 64 game console, which featured a MIPS R4300i CPU.

A specialized version of the MIPS processor, MIPS-X, was developed in tandem at Stanford. MIPS-X is used in embedded devices such as DVD players.

  1. Short for millions of instructions per second, MIPS is the approximate number of instructions a CPU can execute in one second. For example, the Intel 80386 (386) computer processor was capable of performing more than five million instructions every second, or 5 MIPS.

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