What is MIPS?

MIPS Stands for

"Millions of Instructions Per Second"

 MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, based in the United States. ... The early MIPS architectures were 32-bit only; 64-bit versions were developed later.