MIPS Milestone
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
In the past few months reached the penny-per-MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second, a standard measure of processing power) milestone. Intel’s Core Duo running at 2.13 GHz now costs around $200 at retail (it’s around $180 at volume), but can do about 20,000 MIPS. In 1982 a 6 MHz 286 PC did 0.9 MIPS & cost nearly $3,000 — so it was around $1,000/MIPS. Now it’s $0.01/MIPS.