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 particle, a term widely used in experimental particle physics

See also

  • MIP (disambiguation)