MIPS

Mips Technologies, Inc.

A designer of computer processor chips, MIPS builds the RISC architecture that powers networking routers, cable boxes, and video game consoles like the Nintendo 64. It began in 1984 from a Stanford research project led by John Hennessy, was folded into Silicon Graphics in the 1990s, then spun back out as its own company. The name MIPS—"Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages"—was chosen as a pun on the computing speed metric "millions of instructions per second," a nod hardware insiders still enjoy retelling.

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