Selecting the MIPS processor, which was widely available, introducing the new DECstation series with the model 3100 on 11 January 1989.

Some netbooks use MIPS architecture-compatible processors.

They used the Motorola 68000 family of processors originally, but moved to early-generation MIPS processors later on.

MIPS processors already offer Pentium performance for about one-tenth the cost, or higher performance for less than half Pentium's $700 price.

Eventually it was forced to introduce faster MIPS processors, the R12000, R14000 and R16000, which were used in a series of models from 2002 until 2006.

By porting to Android, MIPS processors power smartphones and tablets running on the operating system.

TCL Corporation is using MIPS processors for the development of smartphones.

In 1981, a team led by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University started work on what would become the first MIPS processor.

One of the first start-ups to design MIPS processors was Quantum Effect Devices (see next section).

Both systems were based on the MIPS processors.