MIPS Technologies
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MIPS Technologies, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of pioneering RISC CPUs.
MIPS Computer Systems Inc. was founded in 1984 by a group of researchers from Stanford University that included John L. Hennessy, as a vendor of microprocessor chips.
MIPS made its first initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq in November 1989 (after which it was acquired by SGI, spun-off, then IPOed again in 1998).
After being successful in the chip market with the R2000 and R3000 devices, a management change brought along the larger dreams of being a computer vendor. The company found itself unable to compete in the computer market against much larger companies and was struggling to support the costs of developing both the chips and the systems (MIPS Magnum). In order to secure the supply of future generations of MIPS microprocessors (the 64bit R4000), SGI acquired the company in 1992 for $333 million and ran it as MIPS Technologies Inc. (MTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of SGI.
After SGI decided to migrate to the Itanium architecture in 1998, it was decided to spin out MTI as an intellectual property licensing company offering licences to the MIPS architecture as well as microprocessor core designs. MTI made an IPO on June 30, 1998, i.e. it was no longer wholly owned by SGI since the IPO. SGI spun it off completely on June 20, 2000 by distributing all its interest as stock dividend to the stock holders.
Shares of the company are publicly traded on NASDAQ with the symbols MIPS .
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- 1981: Dr. John Hennessy at Stanford University lead a team initiates the MIPS RISC architecture project
- 1984: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. co-founded by Dr. John Hennessy, Robert Wall and Dr. John Moussouris
- 1989: First IPO in November as MIPS Computer Systems
- 1992: SGI acquires MIPS Computer Systems. Transform it into internal MIPS Group, and then incorporates and renames it to MIPS Technologies, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of SGI)
- 1998: Re-IPO as MIPS Technologies, Inc
- 2002: acquires the UK-based GNU tool chain company Algorithmics Ltd.
- September 6, 2005: acquired First Silicon Solutions (FS2), a Lake Oswego, Oregon company as a wholly owned subsidiary. FS2 specializes in silicon IP, design services and OCI® (On-Chip Instrumentation) development tools for programming, testing, debug and trace of embedded systems in SoC, SOPC, FPGA, ASSP and ASIC devices.
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MIPRO Electronic Co. Ltd,established in 1995, is a Taiwan-based company that produces wireless microphones, wireless portable PAs, for consumer, professional, and commercial applications. History
Founder, K.C. Chang, is an experienced Audio and RF engineer. In Taiwan, he designed the first FM wireless microphone in 1970 and obtained the first patent for a condenser microphone capsule in 1971. In 1971, Mr. Chang founded an electronic company which specialized in manufacturing wireless microphone systems and condenser microphones. In 1995, Mr. Chang sold his shares in this electronic company and founded MIPRO Electronics to focus on and further develop specialized advanced wireless technology products. MIPRO is certificated to ISO-9001 standard. In 2001, MIPRO introduced ACT (Automatic Channel Targeting) function. “ACT” provides rapid and precise channel set-up from receiver to transmitter. The ACT function is the most intelligent wireless system channel set-up feature and is fast becoming an industry standard.
Products
1. Wireless microphone systems 2. Portable wireless PA systems 3. Wireless In-ear Monitoring System 4. Portable ENG Receiver
External Link
Company official web-site: www.mipro.com.tw
