million instructions per second

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million instructions per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"

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computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

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The newly developed micro controller comes with a CPU core of SH2A-FPU, enabling a processing of 480 million instructions per second (MIPS) on a wavelength of 200 MHz and a floating operation of 400 MFLOPS of powered processing.

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The OMAP platform has a dual core architecture with both an ARM and DSP processor both running at 192 MIPS (million instructions per second).

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It has a Texas Instruments digital signal processor running ThingMagic firmware with a processing speed of 600 million instructions per second.

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The device features a dedicated 3-bus architecture and delivers 720 MIPS (million instructions per second) and 2.8 GFLOPS (giga-flops) at 400 MHz, a combination that provides an overall improvement in system performance.

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The series executes code from its third-generation flash up to 60 million instructions per second (MIPS), without using acceleration technology.

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Originally codenamed T-Rex - in deference to the legendary pre-historic dinosaur rather than the 1970s pop group of the same name - the machine is IBM's most powerful mainframe ever, capable of executing 9,000 MIPS (million instructions per second) on 32 processors.

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Furthermore, by 2010, computers are expected to match the computational capabilities of the human brain--an estimated 3.2 million instructions per second.