Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded as SGI) was a company that made high-end computers. The company was founded by Jim Clark and Abbey Silverstone on November 9, 1981 to make graphics display terminals. SGI was famous for making very good computers for 3D animation working on video and pictures. They invented many things that other companies still use today.

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: SGI Template:OTC Pink was NASDAQ: SGIC
Industry	Computer hardware and software
Founded	November 9, 1981; 43 years ago (1981-11-09) Mountain View, California, U.S.[1]
Defunct	May 11, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-05-11)
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy; assets acquired by Rackable Systems, which renamed itself Silicon Graphics International Corp.
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
Key people	Jim Clark Wei Yen Kurt Akeley Ed McCracken Thomas Jermoluk Marc Hannah Rick Belluzzo
Products	High-performance computing, visualization and storage