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This area consists of press releases and announcements from Silicon Graphics and its partners. This information is compiled on a monthly basis and is arranged in reverse chronological order. You can access each announcement by clicking on its title below. This information is also included in Silicon Graphics' monthly email-based magazine .

December 1994

Silicon Graphics

• Leilani Gayles Named Vice President Of Human Resources At Silicon Graphics.

• Silicon Graphics' Interactive Technologies Unveiled With Time Warner Cable's Full Service Network.

November 1994

Silicon Graphics

• Silicon Graphics Introduces POWER CHALLENGEarray.

• Silicon Graphics Supercomputing Technology Power Advanced Aerospace Design At NASA AMES.

• Silicon Graphics and NetManage Techology Alliance To Bring Collaborative Technology To Windows PCs.

• Silicon Graphics Introduces Full-Media 3D Collaboration With New Iris Annotator.

• Silicon Graphics Unveils New Era In Visual Manufacturing SiliconWorks.

• CBS News Harnesses Silicon Graphics Technology.

• Silicon Graphics' CHALLENGE SMP Servers Lead Industry In Network File Server Performance.

• Silicon Graphics announces POWER VISUALIZATION, a no-cost technology briefing.

Subsidiaries

• At the Entertainment Authoring Conference at Hollywood, California, Silicon Studio, Inc. unveiled three programs that promise to define a new future for the creation of entertainment, from motion pictures to new interactive media.

October 1994

Silicon Graphics

• Silicon Graphics' Indy system was recently recognized as a leading product in the Computer Aided Design (CAD) marketplace.

• SGI Listed Among Top Employers of Working Mothers.

Partners and Subsidiaries

• Edward Birss Named to Top Interactive Digital Solutions Post

• Philips Semiconductors Joins As New MIPS Technologies Microprocessor Partner For Embedded Applications

September 1994

August 1994

Silicon Graphics

• Silicon Graphics World Checkers Championship Pits Man Against Computer for world Title

• Silicon Graphics Extends Leadership in Visual Computing With Host of Announcements at SIGGRAPH '94

• Silicon Graphics Unveils Power Onyx Graphics Supercomputer Based on World's Fastest Supercomputing Microprocessor

• Silicon Graphics Introduces Flat Panel Display for Indy Desktop Line

• Silicon Graphics Accelerates 3D Graphics and Application Performance Of Indy Line

• NAG and Silicon Graphics Announce Relationship To Develop, Distribute, and Sell IRIS EXPLORER

• Silicon Graphics To Host Entertainment Authoring Conference

• CHEVRON Enhances Search for Oil and Gas with World's Most Advanced Graphics Supercomputer

July 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics reports 36% revenue growth along with record earnings.
  • Walt Disney Company And Silicon Graphics Team to create Virtual Reality Exhibit at Epcot Center
  • Silicon Graphics to Open Subsidiary in South Africa.
  • Silicon Graphics unveils two new models of Challenge server.

June 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Federal Court Ends Mips Securities Litigation
  • MIPS Technologies Announces OEM Reference Design To Upgrade PCs From Pentium to MIPS for 3.5 X Performance
  • AT&T, Silicon Graphics Form New Company To Speed Arrival Of Interactive Services Via Telephone, Cable Networks
  • James M.Barton named President of Interactive Digital Solutions
  • Mips Technologies Announces the World's fastest Supercomputing Microprocessor
  • Silicon Graphics Introduces 64-BIT Operating System
  • NTT and SGI to Build Interactive Multimedia Services Systems for Japan

May 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Powerful New 200MHz MIPS R4400 RISC Microprocessor Begins Sampling
  • Latest Application Benchmarks Show MIPS-based PCs Fastest Available for Windows NT
  • Silicon Graphics sets TPC-A Database Record with Oracle7 on Challenge Server
  • Silicon Graphics Sponsors International Artists Rights Symposium

April 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • SGI Enters the Fast Lane with Ford Motor Company
  • World Renowned Artist Peter Max Teams with Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  • National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council Launches Three Mega-Projects
  • Announcing Silicon Graphics Expo '94
  • Silicon Graphics dramatically scales power of entry-level INDY SYSTEMS
  • NEW SILICON SURF brings Silicon Graphics data onto Information Superhighway
  • Silicon Graphics simplifies application development with IRIS ViewKit(tm)
  • Silicon Graphics and EDS aim strategic alliance at commercial users
  • SILICON GRAPHICS EXPO '94
  • "I WANT INDY"
• Partners
  • INTERGRAPH'S I/DESIGN ported to Silicon Graphics platform
  • INTERGRAPH'S EMS 3 ported to Silicon Graphics platform

March 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics' Ed McCracken and Tom Jermoluk named to top executive posts
  • Forest Baskett named Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Graphics
  • FORD re-engineers automotive design with Silicon Graphics systems
  • InPerson Desktop Conferencing Software
  • CASEVision - Transforming software development through visualization
• Partners
  • Falcon Microsystems Adobe Photoshop promotion

February 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics announces departure of founder and chairman Jim Clark
  • Silicon Graphics reports 37% increase in revenue
  • Silicon Graphics receives ISO certification for manufacturing quality
  • Silicon Graphics breaks ground for Shoreline development
  • Silicon Graphics names William M. Kelly as Vice President of Business Development and General Counsel
• Partners
  • SGI WORKSTATIONS HAVE ADDED VALUE IN A NOVELL NETWARE ENVIRONMENT
  • NEW PRODUCTS ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM EXPRESSWARE

January 1994

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics enhances Customer Support offerings with Support Advantage Program
  • Silicon Graphics boosts entry desktop performance with introduction of INDY R4400
  • Silicon Graphics' Edward R. McCracken named co-chair of President Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council
  • PC veteran Glenn Henry joins MIPS Technologies
• Partners
  • ASDG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.3 of ELASTICREALITY
  • ASDG ANNOUNCES ESLASTICREALITY RENDER SERVER
  • DESKARTES INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SYSTEM

December 1993

• Silicon Graphics
  • 200 MHz MIPS R4400 RISC Microprocessor unveiled
  • Silicon Graphics names two new board members
  • Kirk Loevner joins Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics announces availability of CHALLENGEcomplib SCIENTIFIC MATH LIBRARY
  • Silicon Graphics announces a two-for-one stock split
  • Low Cost, High Performance microprocessor now shipping
  • Silicon Graphics and Tandem Computers enter Worldwide OEM relationship
  • Silicon Graphics' first database TPC performance number breaks industry record
• Partners
  • Announcing xrolodex - 1.2
  • Announcing ie - 1.3.7
  • EXPRESSWARE NOW OFFERS XINET - MACINTOSH/UNIX CONNECTIVITY
  • QUORUM EQUAL - MICROSOFT WORD & EXCEL FOR SGI WORKSTATIONS
  • ANNOUNCING DRUID VERSION 2.0
  • PORTABLE GRAPHICS SHIPS NEW VERSION OF NPGL LIBRARY FOR X TERMINALS

November 1993

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics reports a 31% increase in revenues
  • Silicon Graphics successfully computes largest computational fluid dynamics problem
• Partners
  • DIS and Virtual Reality Networking with VR-LINK(TM)
  • New Paint System for Silicon Graphics workstations
  • Bitmap Image Touchup (Bit) V0.87

October 1993

• Silicon Graphics
  • Edward R. McCracken named Co-Chair of Joint Venture
• Partners
  • VXM Technologies announces PAX-2

September 1993

• Silicon Graphics
  • INPERSON(tm) desktop conferencing
  • Tom Whitesides joins MIPS as President
  • MIPS delivers power to Microsoft customers
  • Nintendo and Silicon Graphics join forces
  • Silicon Graphics Case Tools
• Partners
  • The Immersion Probe
  • XSB Logic Programming System
  • Software Portability with imake

August 1993

• Silicon Graphics
  • Silicon Graphics reports Billion Dollar year
  • New Indigo2 systems
  • INDY reinvents desktop computing
• Partners
  • Load Balancer version 3.3
  • Learning the KORN Shell