MIPS
millions of instructions per second

They can interpret millions of instructions per second.

Today's computer brains work at speeds measured in mips, or millions of instructions per second.

The standard industry measure is MIPS, or millions of instructions per second.

MIPS stands for millions of instructions per second, a standard measure of computer power.

In the computer trade, MIPS is a common acronym for millions of instructions per second.

MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second.

In fact, demand for mainframe computing power, measured in millions of instructions per second, or MIPS, increased an estimated 13 percent this year.

Such specialized work stations, whose performance is measured in millions of instructions per second, or mips, have cost roughly about $10,000 per mip.

The typical measurement in this case is MIPS/W (millions of instructions per second per watt).

In the past, computer designers have argued over whether widely quoted figures, like millions of instructions per second, or MIPS, can be used to compare computers.

They began to see that client/server could be a cheaper way to deliver MIPS [ millions of instructions per second ] .

The original Sparcstation operates at 12 mips, or millions of instructions per second, compared with about 5 mips for the more powerful personal computers.

I.B.M.'s System/6000 machines generate from 27 to 41 millions of instructions per second, that is 27 to 41 mips.

Kubota's machines are based on the RISC processor designed by MIPS (whose name is taken from the computer term "millions of instructions per second").

"A 16 MHz 386 is a 4 MIPS processor," Mr. Swavely said, using the initials for millions of instructions per second.

The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed, from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second.

This DSP is rated at about 40 MIPS (Millions of Instructions per Second) and handles all the signal compression and decompression.

I.B.M. executives responded that millions of instructions per second were only one measure of computer performance and that mainframe computers still surpassed work stations at moving large amounts of data quickly.

But when processor designers have sat down to map out a next generation CPU, they've historically thought not of Watts but of MIPS (millions of instructions per second).

The computing costs of microprocessor systems (typically measured in dollars per millions of instructions per second, or MIPS) is 10 times to 100 times less than the cost of using mainframes, he estimates.

At 12.5 millions of instructions per second, or MIP's, the new machine matches the performance of the Sparcstation 1 introduced in April 1989, but lacks that computer's internal disk and expansion capability.

Using the Dhrystone benchmark, a 250 MHz OR1200 processor performs 250 Dhrystone millions of instructions per second (DMIPS) in the worst case.

You certainly are never going to run Microsoft Word on such a chip - Microsoft Word requires perhaps 30 megabytes of RAM and a processor that can run millions of instructions per second.

Rather than the traditional performance measurement of millions of instructions per second, or MIPS, Mr. Weiser focused on the greatest number of instructions per joule of energy, pushing toward low-powered portable computing.

However, since the late '90s, the millions of instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power available on low-cost PCs have been adequate to process several media streams, while still leaving enough processing power to handle the application.