Question: Does Applied Materials own stock in Mips or Mips fabricators?
Now that SGI is no more, there really isn't very many Mips computers left. Plus the era of the $20,000 scientific workstation is long gone, everybody just uses a $2,000 PC running Linux. Some of the developers and managers from Thinking Machines tried making a very interesting MIPS supercomputer not too long ago but their company SiCortex went bankrupt. Pity it was a nice computer but no one would buy cause we all figured they'd go belly up and they had the craziest network architecture you could think of ( a Kautz network ), it made my head spin trying to dream up a way to use it. It was a great product but so was the PowerPC. Intel may be crap in comparison to so many products but it rules the market.
Like the PowerPC, MIPS still lives on in embedded products and game consoles such as Playstation 2. It's a licensed product so any number of manufacturers can make them if they wanted to and Universities still teach the architecture as an example of RISC architecture. This once king of Unix now plays host to many a Windows CE product. It would be difficult to say if Applied Materials invest in a company that still uses MIPS, if they invest in mobile, tablets or game stations then probably.
Oracle bought up a lot of companies with MIPS but Oracle is famous for shelving what they buy.
Answer:
Their investments are their business. Not yours.