The MIPS here, though, is MIPS (the company), not MIPS (the CPU architecture). That ‘MIPS CPU’ both:Ran the MIPS ‘Instruction Set Architecture’; and was …Designed by MIPS Technologies Inc. Sony’s PlayStation ended up outselling the Nintendo 64 by a factor of more than 3 to 1 (102m to 32m). The contrast with longtime RISC CPU rival ARM’s consistent focus, business model and stable corporate structure couldn’t be more stark. Loongson technology then licensed the full MIPS architecture in 2007 before moving to its own LoongArch architecture, widely seen as a fork of the MIPS architecture, in 2021.