MIPS

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(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

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4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second Source: Internet

A 50 MHz 486 executes around 40 million instructions per second on average and is able to reach 50 MIPS peak performance. Source: Internet

According to MIPS Technologies Inc., there was an exponential growth, with 48-million MIPS-based CPU shipments and 49% of total RISC CPU market share in 1997. citation MIPS was so successful that SGI spun off MIPS Technologies in 1998. Source: Internet

Amara Thiha is the Senior Research Manager at the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) and a nonresident fellow at the Stimson Center. Source: Internet

A major aspect of the MIPS design was to fit every sub-phase, including cache-access, of all instructions into one cycle, thereby removing any needs for interlocking, and permitting a single cycle throughput. Source: Internet

Anything bigger than that is replicated by a collection of systems. citation Hercules generally outperforms IBM's PC based mainframes from the mid-1990s, which have an advertised peak performance of around 29 MIPS. Source: Internet

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