Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Nov 2005 17:39 UTC
Silicon Graphics Inc. today issued a melancholy press release confirming that it has been kicked off the New York Stock Exchange, and will now trade as a 'penny stock'. SGI was the high-bandwidth, visualization-rich, media-savvy computer systems company that flourished in a decade when media pundits clamored for a winner in what they called 'the convergence space'. SGI obliged, and spared nothing - for a while its budgets were flush for R&D and fancy architecture. "Oh, SGI, we loved you and you screwed up. Bigtime."
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" SGI was the high-bandwidth, visualization-rich, media-savvy computer systems company that flourished in a decade when media pundits clamored for a winner in what they called 'the convergence space'."
The problem is that that space isn't cheap. Parallel processing and cheap hardware only goes so far. I have a cheap GPU in my machine (compared to what SGI uses), and it's not going to be producing Toy Story anytime soon. Even if one uses SLI.