# Mips

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mips/  
**Website:** https://mips.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

MIPS is a processor IP and compute company building embedded and edge AI silicon for automotive, robotics, and mission-critical systems. Its portfolio spans the MIPS RISC-V CPU families (M8500, I8500, P8700, S8200), the ARC processor and NPX/VPX accelerator lines, and development tooling such as MIPS Atlas Explorer virtual platforms and the ASIP Designer / ASIP Programmer toolchains. MIPS frames its offering around a "Sense, Think, Act, Communicate" signal chain for real-time autonomy — what it calls Physical AI at the edge. MIPS is a semiconductor IP licensor rather than a public web-API provider; this profile was surfaced as a Mayfield portfolio company and enriched with identity and probed security posture.

## Kin Score — 7.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Mips Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Processor IP, RISC-V, Edge AI, Embedded Systems, Automotive, Robotics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/mips/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.