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The Studio of Choice: Silicon Studio

Today technology is being driven, in large part, by the entertainment industry. Creative professionals are demanding the best graphics and compute technology available. In response to customer demand and a large opportunity in an emerging digital market, Silicon Graphics formed Silicon Studio, Inc. to meet the growing needs of the more than $10 billion entertainment industry. By providing a wide range of hardware and software tools that include Silicon Graphics best technology coupled with third-party applications, Silicon Studio will offer complete solutions to the film, video, broadcast and interactive entertainment markets.

In Los Angeles, CA in November, Silicon Studio hosted over 1,800 creative professionals from all over the world at the first Entertainment Authoring Conference where three programs that promise to define a new future for the creation of entertainment were unveiled. The company announced the Keystone Initiative, an open environment for content creation; Silicon Studio Live, the service and support structure for the industrys emerging authoring community, including new Training Studios in Los Angeles and London; and Firewalker, a set of tools that will allow filmmakers and other entertainment authors to take original digital source materials and use them to create interactive titles.

As the entertainment industry moves from an analog to digital technology, Silicon Studio will make the transition as easy as possible for creative professionals. As Silicon Graphics computers become more powerful, with better and easier-to-use tools, Silicon Studio can really fuse the world of art and technology.

Silicon Studio can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.studio.sgi.com

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