MIPS R2000

Historia

MIPS (Microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages) is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Computer Systems Inc in the early eighties. MIPS processors were used in high-end servers from Siemens and DEC and especially in SGIs computer product line, and have found broad application in embedded systems, Windows CE devices, and Cisco routers. The Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation 2 consoles also use MIPS processors. The architecture was very successful, about one third of all RISC chips produced in mid 1990s were MIPS based designs. In 1999 the ARM/StrongARM architecture took over rather decisively in thanks to cell phone and PDA usage.