Editing MIPS Technologies (section)

=== Notable Contributors ===
Notable people who have worked at MIPS include [[James Billmaier]],<ref>VentureBeat Profiles. "{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120716122828/http://venturebeatprofiles.com/person/profile/jim-billmaier Jim Billmaier]}}." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> [[Steve Blank]],<ref>UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. "[http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Faculty/blank_steve.aspx Steve G. Blank] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904152650/http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Faculty/blank_steve.aspx |date=September 4, 2011 }}." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> Joseph DiNucci,<ref>VentureBeat Profiles. "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100603035702/http://widget.venturebeatprofiles.com/person/profile/joe-dinucci Joe DiNucci]}}." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> [[John L. Hennessy]],<ref>IEEE Computer Society. "[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/eckerthennesy John L. Hennessy: 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815212900/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/eckerthennesy |date=August 15, 2011 }}." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref>
[[Todd Bezenek]],<ref>ARM Finance Overseas Ltd. "[https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080222580A1/en System and method for managing the design and configuration of an integrated circuit semiconductor design]" 2017.
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[[David Hitz]],<ref>Joe Kovar, CRN. "[http://www.crn.com/news/storage/225700751/2010-storage-superstars.htm;jsessionid=eV3HAPom6qv7wkAid6EACg**.ecappj03?pgno=2 2010 Storage Superstars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922010817/http://www.crn.com/news/storage/225700751/2010-storage-superstars.htm;jsessionid=eV3HAPom6qv7wkAid6EACg**.ecappj03?pgno=2 |date=September 22, 2012 }}." June 21, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> Earl Killian,<ref name="twsNovZ23">{{cite news|url=http://www.paravirtual.com/content/company/advisory_board.htm|title=Earl Killian|date=November 26, 2010|access-date=November 26, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213131715/http://www.paravirtual.com/content/company/advisory_board.htm|archive-date=February 13, 2012|publisher=Paravirtual}}</ref><ref name="twsNovZ14">{{cite news|url=http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/s1_alumni.html|title=S-1 Supercomputer Alumni: Earl Killian|date=June 28, 2005|access-date=November 26, 2010|publisher=Clemson University|quote=Earl Killian's ... MIPS's Director of Architecture ...}}</ref> Dan Levin,<ref>BusinessWeek Profiles. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20121015221051/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=591174&privcapId=127144850&previousCapId=127144850&previousTitle=Campus%20Sponsorship,%20Inc. Dan Levin]." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> [[John Mashey]],<ref>Computer History Museum. "[http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/John,Mashey/ John Mashey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113021428/http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/John,Mashey/ |date=November 13, 2011 }}." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> John P. McCaskey, Bob Miller,<ref>Computer History Museum. "[http://www.computerhistory.org/events/bio/Bob,Miller Bob Miller]." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> [[Stratton Sclavos]],<ref>Forbes. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111102160930/http://people.forbes.com/profile/stratton-d-sclavos/45146 Stratton D. Sclavos]." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> and [[Skip Stritter]].<ref>Computer History Museum. "[http://www.computerhistory.org/events/bio/Skip,Stritter Skip Stritter]." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref>

In 2010, Sandeep Vij was named CEO of MIPS Technologies.<ref name=junko>Junko Yoshida, EE Times. "[http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4087512/New-CEO-Sandeep-Vij-forms-Team-MIPS- New CEO Sandeep Vij forms ‘Team MIPS’]." February 7, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> Vij studied under John Hennessy as a Stanford University graduate student.<ref name=junko/> Prior to taking over at MIPS, Vij was an executive at [[Cavium Networks]],<ref name=junko/> [[Xilinx]] and [[Altera]].<ref>Peter Clarke, EE Times. "[http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4087161/MIPS-appoints-former-Cavium-exec-as-CEO MIPS Appoints Former Cavium Exec as CEO MIPS]." January 25, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref>

''EE Times'' reported that MIPS had 150 employees as of November 1, 2010.<ref>Junko Yoshida, EE Times, "[http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210278/MIPS-CEO---Companies-need-to-have-a-soul- MIPS CEO: Companies need to have a soul]". November 1, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2012.</ref> If the August 14, 2008 EDN article<ref name="edn.com"/> was accurate about MIPS having over 500 employees at the time, then MIPS reduced their total workforce by 70% between 2008 and 2010.

{{plain image with caption|MIPS by Imagination logo.jpg|upright=0.5|MIPS branding as used by [[Imagination Technologies]]}}

In addition to its main [[R&D]] center in [[Sunnyvale, California]],<ref>Hoovers. "[http://www.hoovers.com/company/MIPS_Technologies_Inc/hjxfci-1.html MIPS Technologies]." Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> MIPS has engineering facilities in [[Shanghai]], [[China]], [[Beaverton, Oregon]], [[Bristol]] and [[Kings Langley]], both in [[England]].<ref>Colleen Taylor, EDN. "[https://archive.today/20120728122159/http://www.edn.com/article/459759-MIPS_plans_HQ_in_Silicon_Forest.php MIPS plans HQ in Silicon Forest]." March 13, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2011.</ref> It also has offices in Hsin-chu, [[Taiwan]]; [[Tokyo, Japan]]; Remscheid, [[Germany]] and [[Haifa, Israel]].<ref name="two">Company Press Release. "[http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-08-2009/0005022377 Synopsys Acquires Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies]." May 8, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2009.</ref>

During the first quarter of 2013, 498 out of 580 of MIPS patents were sold to Bridge Crossing which was created by [[Allied Security Trust]], with all processor-specific patents and the other parts of the company sold to [[Imagination Technologies]].<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/11/06/mips-selling-all-assets-for-combined-7-31shr-in-cash/ MIPS Selling All Assets For Combined $7.31/Shr In Cash]. Forbes. Retrieved on May 23, 2014.</ref> Imagination had outbid [[Ceva (semiconductor company)|Ceva Inc]] to buy MIPS with an offer of $100 million,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-17/imagination-tech-to-buy-mips-tech-for-100m|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222005943/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-17/imagination-tech-to-buy-mips-tech-for-100m|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2012|title=Imagination Tech to buy MIPS Tech for $100M|agency=Associated Press|date=December 17, 2012|access-date=December 18, 2012}}</ref> and was investing to develop the architecture for the embedded processor market.

In 2017, under financial pressure itself, Imagination Technologies sold the MIPS processor business to a California-based investment company, Tallwood Venture Capital.<ref name="bloomberg20170922"/> Tallwood in turn sold the business to Wave Computing in 2018,<ref name="top500_mips"/> both of these companies reportedly having their origins with, or ownership links to, a co-founder of [[Chips and Technologies]] and [[S3 Graphics]].<ref name="eejournal20200907_mips">{{ cite web | url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/loose-lips-sink-mips/ | title=Loose Lips Sink MIPS | website=Electronic Engineering Journal | date=7 September 2020 | access-date=5 September 2022 }}</ref> Despite the regulatory obstacles that had forced Imagination to divest itself of the MIPS business prior to its own acquisition by Canyon Bridge, bankruptcy proceedings for Wave Computing indicated that the company had in 2018 and 2019 transferred full licensing rights for the MIPS architecture for China, Hong Kong and Macau to CIP United, a Shanghai-based company.<ref name="reuters20200815_mips">{{ cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-tech-insight/tech-war-chronicles-how-a-silicon-valley-chip-pioneer-landed-in-china-idUSKBN25L15U | title=Tech war chronicles: How a Silicon Valley chip pioneer landed in China | date=15 August 2020 | access-date=5 September 2022 | last1=Lee | first1=Jane Lanhee }}</ref>

In 2021, MIPS announced it would begin making chips based on the [[RISC-V]] architecture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-08 |title=Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V |url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-risc-v/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=EEJournal |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2022, the company announced availability of its first RISC-V CPU IP core, the eVocore P8700.<ref name=":1" />

In September 2023, MIPS named former [[Texas Instruments]] (TI) executive Sameer Wasson CEO. Wasson spent 18 years at TI, most recently as vice president, Business Unit (BU) Manager, Processors.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Hettinga |first=Wisse |date=2023-09-07 |title=MIPS to Drive RISC-V Market Penetration and Innovation |url=https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/mips-to-drive-risc-v-market-penetration-and-innovation/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=eeNews Europe |language=en-US}}</ref>