Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

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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