Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead

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

by high-end I mean Intel isn't going to have anything as nice as an Octane or an
Origin server in the near future.


Bob Tanner wrote:

> I think Intel is reaching for the high-end workstation market.
>
> I guess it depends on what you call high-end :-)
>
> What is high-end? Sparc Ultra2?
>
> Quoting Serge M. Egelman (serge@egel2.med.umn.edu):
> > 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
> > >
> > > Please respond to tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> > >
> > > To:   tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> > > cc:    (bcc: Brad C Elkin)
> > > Subject:  [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead
> > >
> > > 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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