# MIPS

> MIPS is a San Jose-based semiconductor IP company with a 40-year heritage in RISC computing. After abandoning its own legacy architecture, MIPS reinvented itself around the open RISC-V instruction set and now builds compute subsystems for autonomous platforms across automotive, industrial, robotics, and edge AI markets. Its Atlas portfolio - spanning Sense, Think, Act, and Communicate building blocks - targets the low-latency, safety-critical demands of what the company calls Physical AI. In July 2025, GlobalFoundries announced a deal to acquire MIPS.

- **Founded:** 1984
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** John L. Hennessy (Co-founder (Stanford, MIPS architecture)), John Moussouris (Co-founder), Skip Stritter (Co-founder), Chris Rowen (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~770 employees
- **Products:** MIPS Atlas Portfolio, eVocore P8700, eVocore I8500, MIPS Sense, MIPS Atlas Explorer
- **Notable:** 40-year heritage in RISC computing innovation, MIPS architecture powered SGI workstations, DEC systems, and game consoles including the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation, Released the P8700, billed as the industry's first high-performance AI-enabled RISC-V automotive CPU

## Products & services

- **MIPS Atlas Portfolio** — A family of compute subsystems for autonomous platforms organized around the Sense, Think, Act, Communicate signal chain for Physical AI.
- **eVocore P8700** — The industry's first high-performance, AI-enabled RISC-V automotive CPU, built for ADAS and autonomous vehicles with low-latency, intensive data-movement demands.
- **eVocore I8500** — Power-efficient in-order multiprocessor IP for SoCs, fusing multi-threading with a triple-issue pipeline, scaling up to 64 clusters, 512 cores, and 2,048 harts/threads.
- **MIPS Sense** — Data movement engines enabling low-latency, high-reliability data processing with functional safety, coupling with edge AI engines.
- **MIPS Atlas Explorer** — A virtual-platform software environment for evaluating and optimizing IP, subsystems, and SoCs before silicon exists.
- **M8500 real-time compute subsystem** — A real-time compute subsystem reference design including silicon, aimed at lead-customer evaluation and broad availability.

## Achievements

- 40-year heritage in RISC computing innovation
- MIPS architecture powered SGI workstations, DEC systems, and game consoles including the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation
- Released the P8700, billed as the industry's first high-performance AI-enabled RISC-V automotive CPU
- Successfully pivoted from its own legacy ISA to the open RISC-V standard
- Agreed to be acquired by GlobalFoundries in 2025 to accelerate AI and compute capabilities

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — GlobalFoundries announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS to accelerate AI and compute capabilities; MIPS to operate as a standalone business within GF.
- **2025-06** — MIPS and Cyient Semiconductors announced a strategic collaboration on custom RISC-V-based intelligent power solutions for AI, robotics, and automotive.
- **2025-01** — MIPS introduced the Atlas portfolio for Physical AI, with the P8700 available and the I8500 available to lead customers.
- **2024-11** — MIPS released the P8700, the industry's first high-performance AI-enabled RISC-V automotive CPU for ADAS and autonomous vehicles.
- **2023-09** — MIPS named former Texas Instruments executive Sameer Wasson as CEO.

## Links

- Website: https://mips.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mips-technologies
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MIPSGuru
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mips_riscv
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/MIPSfans/

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