SGI Enters Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

[Geo]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114708367971646497.html?mod=home_whats_news_us (couple of ads to click thru, but didn't require registration).

You'd think NV or ATI would want to pick over those bones. . .

 

[NocturnDragon]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114708367971646497.html?mod=home_whats_news_us (couple of ads to click thru, but didn't require registration).

You'd think NV or ATI would want to pick over those bones. . .

Yeah bones is the right term, I guess there is not much other left. Didn't microsoft bought the majority of patents sometime last year? (2 years ago?)

Anyway, sad sad news... But it didn't come unexpected.

 

[Geo]

Yeah bones is the right term, I guess there is not much other left. Didn't microsoft bought the majority of patents sometime last year? (2 years ago?)

Apparently. . . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/

 

[nutball]

Yeah there's not very much left that the graphics boys would want I think. SGI are a casualty of some bad decisions made 5-10 years ago (eg. selling commodity PCs as expensive "workstations"), and Intel's inability to deliver a performant Itanium2 when it counted.

Who'd buy them? HP or maybe Sun would be the obvious ones I suppose (for the NUMAlink interconnect IP which SGI got from Cray all those years ago).

 

[DemoCoder]

It's also a failure to invest heavily in new GPU. SGI didn't even keep up with 3DLabs, and 3DLabs went under.

 

[karlotta]

the brain drain started many years ago

 

[the maddman]

A sad day, but not hard to see coming. I always wanted an Indigo, but when they tied themselves to the first generation of the Itanium, it was all downhill from there. I guess it's time to start looking on Ebay.

 

[Farid]

It's the fall of a legend.

 

[Nom De Guerre]

It's the fall of a legend.

It's the fall of a dinosaur.

 

[Farid]

For those who might understand

It's the fall of a dinosaur.

Dinosaurs rock, man.

Talking about that, I'm sure that in a brutal and manly battle between a dinosaur and John Carmack, the dino will win hand down. But that's something else, entirely.

 

[Geo]

Dinosaurs rock, man.

Talking about that, I'm sure that in a brutal and manly battle between a dinosaur and John Carmack, the dino will win hand down. But that's something else, entirely.

Maybe. But Chuck Norris would have Dino steaks for dinner.

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

Maybe. But Chuck Norris would have Dino steaks for dinner.

Chuck Norris eats eight meals a day. Seven are steak, and the last is the rest of the cow.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/



My personal favorite is
"Chuck Norris counted to infinity.
Twice."

 

[Hanners]

Maybe. But Chuck Norris would have Dino steaks for dinner.

Except there will never be a fight between dinaosaurs and Chuck Norris, since that fateful day that he crossed them off his list of creatures he allows to live.

 

[karlotta]

A sad day, but not hard to see coming. I always wanted an Indigo, but when they tied themselves to the first generation of the Itanium, it was all downhill from there. I guess it's time to start looking on Ebay.

i was very disapointed when i sat down at my friends indigo workstation(35,000$) and couldnt play quake... i got up and said "root this". Heck after the code work, it sat in the closet for years untill a the merger. Sent it away..loud fans and all.

 

[nutball]

i was very disapointed when i sat down at my friends indigo workstation(35,000$) and couldnt play quake...

Yeah but it was neat playing Quake on a 128-processor supercomputer

 

[_xxx_]

Maybe. But Chuck Norris would have Dino steaks for dinner.

Bah, Jack Bauer has Norris steaks for dinner