MIPS:

            It is acronym of  Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages.

        It is RISC instruction set architecture developed by MIPS Technologies.Multiple revisions of the MIPS instruction set exist, including MIPS I, MIPS II, MIPS III, MIPS IV, MIPS V, MIPS32, and MIPS64. The current revisions are MIPS32 (for 32-bit implementations) and MIPS64 (for 64-bit implementations).MIPS32 and MIPS64 define a control register set as well as the instruction set.

    MIPS implementations are primarily used in embedded systems such as Windows CE devices, routers, residential gateways, and video game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products. MIPS implementations were also used by Digital Equipment Corporation, NEC, Pyramid Technology, Siemens Nixdorf, Tandem Computers and others during the late 1980s and 1990s.

        One of the more interesting applications of the MIPS architecture is its use in massive processor count supercomputers.

MIPS

Designer	MIPS Technologies, Inc.
Bits	64-bit (32→64)
Introduced	1981
Design	RISC
Type	Register-Register
Encoding	Fixed
Branching	Condition register
Endianness	Bi
Extensions	MDMX, MIPS-3D