A GROWING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

• A network of alliances is extending Silicon Graphics' business 1988 CONTROL DATA Buys 20% stake in SGI, since sold.

• IBM Licenses SGI graphics technology for use in workstations.1991 COMPAQ Buys 13% stake in SGI for $135 million.

• MICROSOFT Chooses SGI 3-D software for future operating systems.

• ACE (ADVANCED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT) Consortium formed by SGI, Compaq and PC makers to push MIPS' chip design as a desktop standard. 1992

• MIPS SGI buys this chip designer for $231 million. Compaq sells its SGI stake, and abandons MIPS-based design; ACE founders. 1993

• LUCAS ARTS' INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC Collaborates on advanced special-effects system with SGI.

• TIME WARNER CABLE, SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA SGI designing video servers, set-top box, and software for interactive TV trial to start this fall.

• NINTENDO Picks SGI to design video game player. 1994

• SONY Picks LSI Logic's MIPS chip for new videogame player.

• NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE Chooses SGI video servers for interactive TV trials in Japan.

• AT&T Forms joint company with SGI to develop and sell software and video servers.

  DATA: SILICON GRAPHICS INC.

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