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MIPS R10000

The MIPS R10000 is a high-performance microprocessor developed by MIPS Technologies, a company known for its expertise in developing Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architectures. Released in 1996, the R10000 was a significant advancement over its predecessors, featuring a superscalar architecture capable of executing multiple instructions simultaneously. With clock speeds ranging from 180 MHz to 250 MHz, the R10000 offered impressive processing power for its time, making it popular for high-end workstation and server applications. The processor utilized a large on-chip cache and supported features like out-of-order execution to further boost performance. However, despite its technical prowess, the R10000 faced competition from other RISC architectures like SPARC and DEC Alpha, and ultimately, MIPS struggled to maintain market share in the face of increasing competition from x86-based processors.