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   What happened to Silicon Graphics?

   • It merged the companies to form Alias/Wavefront, a high-end 3D graphics software development arm. Nine years later, SGI wrote it off as a loss, selling the division for about $57 million to equity investment firm Accel-KKR. Silicon Graphics computers in 1997

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   What is Silicon Graphics?

   • At its peak in the 1990s, Silicon Graphics had legendary status among 3D and graphic designers who leveraged the unique power of these workstations that were at cutting edge of visual computing.

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   How did Silicon Graphics start?

   • Silicon Graphics got its start in a day when most people did not even have a home computer. The year was 1982. James Clark left his job at Stanford University, where he was an associate professor of electrical engineering with the vision of creating powerful computers that could perform the complex computations required in 3D animation.

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   Does Silicon Graphics still exist?

   • The legacy of Silicon Graphics can still be seen in the Nintendo 64, which they helped develop, and several Hollywood movies, including Jurassic Park, Twister, Congo, Toy Story, and many others, but let's not get ahead of ourselves... SGI's Onyx2 system (1996) contained 8 MIPS R10000 CPUs, 16GB RAM and two graphics pipelines.

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   Nov 10, 2022 · At its peak in the 1990s, Silicon Graphics had legendary status among 3D and graphic designers who leveraged the unique power of these workstations that were at cutting edge of visual computing.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Silicon_GraphicsSilicon Graphics - Wikipedia

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   Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.

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   Apr 8, 2024 · My perception of what happened to SGI: * The company found itself in a really pivotal position, largely accidentally, and the execs all assumed it was their brilliance which put them...

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   Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI; formerly Rackable Systems, Inc.) was an American manufacturer of computer hardware and software, including high-performance computing systems, x86-based servers for datacenter deployment, and visualization products.

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   Apr 5, 2024 · Silicon Graphics came to do a demo of their hardware for students that were interested in taking a computer science course at university in the following year. The graphics demos looked like trash, basically just untextured and badly shaded plain colored objects rotating on the screen.

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   Nov 26, 2004 · The company is Silicon Graphics Incorporated, or SGI, which once was famous for its high-powered graphics and 3-D workstations but has fallen on hard times of late.

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   Apr 6, 2024 · The rise and fall of Silicon Graphics. Clark founded Silicon Graphics Inc on the 9th of November in 1981, and he left Stanford early in 1982 to pursue building the company full time with just $25000 in funding (around $85000 in 2024) from a friend and the contents of his own accounts.