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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