Silicon Graphics, Inc., later rebranded SGI, was an American high-performance computing manufacturer that produced computer hardware and software. James H. Clark, who also founded Netscape with Marc Andreessen, founded it in Mountain View, California, in November 1981. Its initial market was 3D graphics computer workstations, and its early systems were based on the Geometry Engine that Clark and Marc Hannah developed at Stanford University, the first very-large-scale integration implementation of a geometry pipeline. Through the mid to late 1990s, the rapidly improving performance of commodity Wintel machines eroded its stronghold in the 3D market.
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Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.
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