A company which designs, develops, and licenses
reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessors
and compilers. MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of
Silicon Graphics, Inc. and operates as an
independent unit. MIPS is the successor to the processor
business of MIPS Computer Systems which was founded in 1984
and merged with Silicon Graphics on 29 June 1992.
MIPS Technologies developed the world's first RISC
VLSI
microprocessors (1985) (or was it the
ARM?), the first
commercial 64-bit microprocessor (
MIPS R4000, 1992),
announced MIPS R4300i - the first 64-bit RISC processor
designed for interactive consumer applications (April 1995).
They announced the MIPS R10000 - the next generation
general-purpose MIPS microprocessor and the most powerful
processor in the world (October 1994).
MIPS' semiconductor company partners participate in the design
and development of MIPS processors and software and then
produce, market, and support the processors. MIPS itself does
not fabricate or sell products. MIPS' semiconductor partners
are: Integrated Device Technology, LSI Logic Corporation,
NEC Corporation, NKK Corporation, Philips Semiconductors,
Siemens AG, and
Toshiba Corporation.
MIPS' products include:
R4000 - 100 MHz; 1.35M transistors, primary i/d cache 8KB/8KB,
SPECint92 58.3/ SPECfp92 61.4.
R4300i - 133 MHZ, 1.35M transistors; primary i/d cache,
16KB/8KB, SPECint92 80, SPECfp92 60.
R4400 - 250 MHz, 2.3M transistors, primary i/d cache
16KB/16KB, SPECint92 175.8, SPECfp92 164.4.
R4600 - 133 MHz, 1.9M transistors, primary i/d cache
16KB/16KB, SPECint92 85, SPECfp92 75.
R8000/R8010 - 90 MHz, 2.6M, .83M transistors, primary i/d
cache, 16KB/16KB, SPECint92 132, SPECfp92 396.
R10000 - 200 MHz, 6.7M transistors, primary i/d cache
32KB/32KB, SPECint92 >300, SPECfp92 >600.
MIPS' processor chips were used in the DEC 3100 series of
workstations.
http://mips.com/.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.sys.mips.