MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
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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. These researchers had worked on a project called MIPS (for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages), one of the projects that pioneered the RISC concept. Other principal founders were Skip Stritter, formerly a Motorola technologist, and John Moussouris, formerly of IBM.
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