Silicon Graphics
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| NYSE: SGI Template:OTC Pink was NASDAQ: SGIC | |
| Industry | Computer hardware and software |
| Founded | November 9, 1981 Mountain View, California, U.S.[1] |
| Defunct | May 11, 2009 |
| Fate | Chapter 11 bankruptcy; assets acquired by Rackable Systems, which renamed itself Silicon Graphics International Corp. |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
Key people | Jim Clark Wei Yen Kurt Akeley Ed McCracken Thomas Jermoluk Marc Hannah Rick Belluzzo |
| Products | High-performance computing, visualization and storage |
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded as SGI) was a company that made high-end computers. The company was founded by Jim Clark and Abbey Silverstone on November 9, 1981 to make graphics display terminals. SGI was famous for making very good computers for 3D animation working on video and pictures. They invented many things that other companies still use today.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Business Entity Detail". Business Search database. California Secretary of State. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
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