Founded in 1984 as MIPS Computer Systems, the company went public in 1989. MIPS was acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1992 after nearly running out of money, then spun back out to the public market ...

Reacting to the contention that MIPS' additions mark a belated attempt to turn a computer-oriented processor architecture into one supporting embedded systems, Courtright said: “These things have ...

Wave will also leverage the MIPS architecture as a controller for its data center platform. Additionally, MIPS provides a platform to take Wave’s architecture into edge computing applications.

The MIPS SIMD architecture (MSA) module allows efficient parallel processing of vector operations. This functionality is of growing importance across a range of applications. For consumer electronics ...

As a result MIPS became an intellectual property licensing company, offering licences for the MIPS architecture and the related microprocessor core designs. But that isn’t the end of the story.

They have ensured that “every iteration of…Android L runs optimally” on their MIPS architecture. It can handle both 32-bit and 64-bit without the need for any separate ISAs or any mode ...

MIPS Technologies introduced a chip architecture on Monday that it will license to manufacturers, which, in turn, will use the blueprints to stamp out chips for cell phones and other devices. The ...

After seven years as a professor in the electrical engineering department, President John Hennessy took a sabbatical from Stanford in 1984 to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and commercialize his ...

The Daily sat down with John Hennessy and Hossein Yassaie to talk about the acquisition as well as the history of MIPS and the realities of information technology and startup companies.

Embedded Alley, a company that specializes in mobile and embedded Linux technology, is porting Google's Android platform to the MIPS architecture. The port could make Android a viable choice for ...