In 2017 MIPS was bought by Tallwood Ventures to keep the technology in the US, as part of the conditions put on the sale of owner Imagination to equity fund Canyon Bridge. At the time, and subsequently, such deals were increasingly coming under the scrutiny of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
但是，一系列的转移详细介绍了Reutershas seen the MIPS technology moved multiple times and then licensed to a Samoan company called Prestige Century Investments and that license then reassigned on to a wholly-owned subsidiary CIP United Co. Ltd. registered in Shanghai, China. As a result, CIP controls the MIPS licensing rights for all new and existing customers in China, Hong Kong and Macau, and the right to develop new derivative technologies based on the MIPS architecture.
One of the key people in the complex series of transfers is Diosdado Banatao, the Filipino engineer and entrepreneur who made his fortune by co-founding such companies as Chips & Technologies and S3 Graphics in the 1980s.
Banatao went on to found Tallwood Venture Capital in 2000 and it was Tallwood that acquired MIPS when it was made a condition of the sale of Imagination. Tallwood sold MIPS on to Wave Computing Inc., a company founded in 2009 and in which Tallwood was a major shareholder.
Then MIPS Technologies International Ltd., registered in the Cayman Islands, was created as an overseas subsidiary of Wave Computing to house the MIPS patent portfolio and licensing business. It was this entity that cut the deal with Samoan registered Prestige.
MIPS许可协议和复杂交易的细节在Wave Computing Inc.的美国破产程序中揭示了。该破产现在使MIPS技术使MIPS技术曾经如此重要，有效地孤儿院，并掌握在中国人的手中。
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