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• SGI SAYS GOODBYE TO PENTIUM.(Silicon Graphics Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-25

  In September, Silicon Graphics Inc. will discontinue its ZX10 Pentium III-based workstation. It will not develop software for the new Pentium IV chip but will shift R&D to Intel's ... In September, Silicon Graphics Inc. will discontinue its ZX10 Pentium III-based workstation. It will...

  Tags: chip, Intel Corp., Intel Pentium, Silicon Graphics Inc., workstation

• Rambus Loses High-End Designs To Memory Rival - IBM and Silicon Graphics will develop double data rate DRAM chips for servers and workstations rather than Rambus DRAM - Company Business and Marketing

  - 1998-12-07

  san jose -- IBM and Silicon Graphics last week said they would design double data rate DDR dynamic RAM chips into their servers and workstations, giving the technology a big boost in its battle with Rambus DRAM. Hewlett-Packard is also expected to soon announce adoption of DDR in high-end systems.

  Tags: chip, DRAM, IBM Corp., marketing, server, Silicon Graphics Inc., workstation

• Business World

  - 1998-04-15

  Fewer find it taxing DULLES, Va. Bloomberg -- The number of America Online members visiting its tax planning forum jumped 75 percent this year, compared with last year, as Internet users become more comfortable with tapping the Web for tax advice. What's more, the number of people who...

  Tags: Associated Press, blade, chip, computer, FINANCE, HARDWARE, Intel Corp., INTERNET, network, phone, PRODUCTIVITY, razor, Servers, Silicon Graphics Inc., SOFTWARE, Sprint Communications, Taxes

• MIPS Technologies, Hitachi increase embedded lead - the market for RISC chips - Company Business and Marketing

  - 1997-01-27

  Mountain View, Calif.--The embedded systems market, perhaps the fastest-growing systems market today, is increasingly dominated by two companies: MIPS Technologies, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. SGI; and Hitachi. Silicon Graphics will this week announce that shipments of its MIPS RISC architecture microprocessors have increased tenfold in the last two...

  Tags: chip, Hitachi Ltd., marketing, RISC, Silicon Graphics Inc.

• ABC adds processing power for elections. (computer animation and data processing software and equipment that will be used by ABC News Inc. to cover Nov. 1996 election)

  - 1996-11-04

  Also will use Orad virtual set for exit-poll information Although ABC News will, be using Orad's virtual set to help correspondent Lynn Sherr display demographic information about Election '96 votes, that represents only a slice of ABC's Silic Also...

  Tags: ABC Inc., animation, chip, computer, data-processing, graphics, Silicon Graphics Inc., Texas Instruments Inc.

• Silicon Graphics Reveals Chip Problem.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

  - 1996-09-26

  Sep. 26--Silicon Graphics Inc. revealed Wednesday that some of its most advanced microprocessors have abruptly shut down at random, rendering its high-powered computers useless. Sep. 26--Silicon Graphics Inc. revealed Wednesday that some of its most advanced microprocessors have abruptly shut down at random, rendering its...

  Tags: chip, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Graphics Inc.

• 3Dlabs GLINT Chip Brings Real-Time Virtual Reality to the Internet; New Virtual Reality Internet standard is seamlessly accelerated by GLINT-based boards on desktop PCs; GLINT endorsed for new software from Silicon Graphics, Template Graphics and Netscape

  - 1995-04-03

  SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 3, 1995--3Dlabs Inc. today announced that the company's GLINTr 3D graphics accelerator chip is the first device to be certified as supporting and fully accelerating the new Internet 3D graphics standard, called VRMLtm Virtual Reality Modelling Language, which will bring 3D graphics and virtual reality to...

  Tags: board, chip, desktop, desktop computer, graphics, Internet, Netscape Communications Corp., PC, Silicon Graphics Inc., software, virtual reality

• Report CDC weighs OEM shift on RISC - original equipment manufacturer Control Data Corp. may shift from Silicon Graphics Inc. and MIPS Computer Systems Inc. to different firm for reduced-instruction set computer chips - Financial News

  - 1992-03-23

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Control Data Corp., the largest OEM customer of both Silicon Graphics and MIPS Computer Systems, is reportedly considering switching to a different computer supplier in the wake of SGI's deal to acquire MIPS and take control of its RISC architecture.

  Tags: chip, computer, computer chip, financial, OEM, RISC, Silicon Graphics Inc.