Chris Rowen is an American entrepreneur and technologist. Rowen is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems, Inc in 1984, of Tensilica Inc. in 1997 and of Babblelabs, Inc in 2017.[1] Rowen was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016[2] for leadership in the development of microprocessors and reduced instruction set computers.