Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead

[serge@egel2.med.umn.edu (Serge M. Egelman)]

I agree with you, Apple and SGI deal with completly different markets.  It
would make sense that Apple should suffer because they are competing with Intel
on the desktop pc market.  However, one would assume SGI should be doing even
better since DEC is almost dead.  And furthermore, Intel does not cater to the
high-end workstation and server market.  So it doesn't make much sense to me
why this is happening.  I suppose that IRIX is dad too then?

serge

Brad_C_Elkin@notes.seagate.com wrote:

> SGI's long term plan (for at least the last year +) has been to migrate to
> Intel chips. Intel's delaying Merced has only prolonged the inevitable. SGI
> has been against the ropes financially for a while, and they're biting the
> bullet now, while they still can (Cray never did, until it was too late).
> We were told that MIPS was being sold off last summer, but there were plans
> for at least one more generation of MIPS chips in SGI products, until
> Merced takes over.
> SGI couldn't afford to compete against Intel, just like everyone else
> except IBM and Sun. (And who knows how long Sun will last...) Even Apple
> only has IBM to supply PPC chips, Motorola having bailed a while ago.
>
> I guess the market prefers backward compatability to innovation...
>
> serge@egel2.med.umn.edu (Serge M. Egelman) on 01/15/99 04:03:04 PM
>
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>
> hello all,
>     I was just looking at slashdot, and it would appear that SGI is trying
> to
> sell 85% of MIPS.  This could be coincidende, but I find it rather odd that
> this announcement was made less than a week after the release of their
> first
> Intel based systems.  I don't know what you people are thinking, but I
> think
> that would really suck if SGI sees NT (on Intel based systems) as their
> only
> long term option.  This might be more of an incentive for someone to make a
> good distribution for SGI architecture systems.  What do you all think?
>
> serge
>
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