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Silicon Graphics Inc. ( SGI )
Established Date: Jan. 1, 1982
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Founded in 1982 by Dr. Jim Clark (Ph.D., University of Utah, 1974), Silicon Graphics Inc. was the manufacturer of RISC processor-based IRIS graphics workstations, which are popular in visualization and high-end CG animation/visual-effects companies. Jim Clark, while at Stanford University, invented the Graphics Engine, the first Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) graphics chip. The company has gone through many significant changes until being branded simply as SGI in May of 2009.
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SGI produced its first computer, the IRIS 1000, in 1983 and went public in 1986. (IRIS stands for Integrated Raster Imaging System.) The first 1000 series workstations were really terminals because they required a VAX host.SGI then acquired both Alias and Wavefront in 1995 and Cray Supercomputers in 1996. Those where good times, but they would not last.
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In 1997, SGI announced a new joint effort with Microsoft and Intel to develop a next-generation processor line for its graphics workstations, a new SGI Intel/NT. Introduced in spring of 1999, the SGI 320 and 540 workstations were Windows NT-based and cost between $3,400 and $5,995. The 540 supported up to four Pentium II Xeon 450MHz processors and up to 2GB of graphics memory.
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IRIS 1000
SGI produced its first computer, the IRIS 1000, in 1983 and went public in 1986. (IRIS stands for Integrated Raster Imaging System.) The first 1000 series workstations were really terminals because they required a VAX host.SGI then acquired both Alias and Wavefront in 1995 and Cray Supercomputers in 1996. Those where good times, but they would not last.
SGI and Intel
In 1997, SGI announced a new joint effort with Microsoft and Intel to develop a next-generation processor line for its graphics workstations, a new SGI Intel/NT. Introduced in spring of 1999, the SGI 320 and 540 workstations were Windows NT-based and cost between $3,400 and $5,995. The 540 supported up to four Pentium II Xeon 450MHz processors and up to 2GB of graphics memory.
Founded in 1982 by Dr. Jim Clark (Ph.D., University of Utah, 1974), Silicon Graphics Inc. was the manufacturer of RISC processor-based IRIS graphics workstations, which are popular in visualization and high-end CG animation/visual-effects companies. Jim Clark, while at Stanford University, invented the Graphics Engine, the first Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) graphics chip. The company has gone through many significant changes until being branded simply as SGI in May of 2009.