MIPS Computer Systems
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | RISC microprocessors |
| Fate | Acquired in 2013 by Imagination Technologies |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, United States |
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Key people
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Sandeep Vij |
| Products | Semiconductor intellectual property |
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Number of employees
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146 (September 2010) |
| Parent | Imagination Technologies |
| Website | imgtec |
Coordinates: 37°25′12″N 122°04′22″W / 37.4201°N 122.0728°W
MIPS Technologies, Inc., formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., was a United States-based fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it. MIPS provides processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking, embedded, Internet of things and mobile applications.
On 8 February 2013 MIPS Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Imagination Technologies after CEVA, Inc. pulled out of the bidding. Imagination Technologies is a UK-based company best known for their PowerVR graphics processor family.
MIPS Computer Systems Inc. was founded in 1984 by a group of researchers from Stanford University that included John L. Hennessy, one of the pioneers of the RISC concept. Other principal founders were Skip Stritter, formerly a Motorola technologist, and John Moussouris, formerly of IBM.
The initial CEO was Vaemond Crane, formerly President and CEO of Computer Consoles Inc., who arrived in February, 1985 and departed in June, 1989. He was replaced by Bob Miller, a former senior IBM and Data General executive. Miller ran the company through its IPO and subsequent sale to Silicon Graphics.
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