MIPS

MIPS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• MIPS Technologies, an American semiconductor design firm
• Maharana Institute of Professional Studies, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Mansehra International Public School and College, Mansehra, Pakistan
• Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS), Parkville, Victoria, Australia
• Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences, Germany

Economics and finance

• Material input per unit of service, an eco-efficiency indicator
• Monthly income preferred stock, a financial instrument
• Merit-based Incentive Payment System, in United States Medicare

Technology

Computing

• Million instructions per second, a CPU performance measure
• MIPS architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture
• Maximum inner-product search, in computer science
• Stanford MIPS, a research project
• MIPS-X, a follow-on project

Other technologies

• Molecularly imprinted polymer
• Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer, on the Spitzer Space Telescope
• Multi-directional Impact Protection System, a helmet safety technology

Other uses

• Menards Infiniti Pro Series, a former name of an Indy Pro Series automobile race
• MIPS, a rabbit in Super Mario 64
• Minimum Ionizing Particles, a term widely used in experimental particle physics

See also

• MIP (disambiguation)