Much of the original Fahrenheit project was abandoned, and Microsoft and SGI eventually gave up on attempts to work together.

SGI used Transitive Corporation's QuickTransit software to allow their old MIPS / IRIX applications to run ( in emulation ) on the new Itanium / Linux platform.

The fourth generation competed with the P5 Pentium line, but it was not nearly as widely used as its predecessors, since much of the old 68000 marketplace was either defunct or nearly so ( as was the case with Atari and NeXT ), or converting to newer architectures ( PowerPC for the Macintosh and Amiga, SPARC for Sun, and MIPS for SGI ).

Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) refocused its business from desktop graphics workstations to the high-performance computing market in the early 1990s.

In the mid-1990s, a major use of non-embedded MIPS microprocessors were graphics workstations from SGI.

The R5000 FPU had more flexible single precision floating-point scheduling than the R4000, and as a result, R5000-based SGI Indys had much better graphics performance than similarly clocked R4400 Indys with the same graphics hardware.

By the early 1990s, Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) was a leader in 3D graphics for workstations.

This in turn caused SGI market share to weaken as more 3D graphics hardware suppliers entered the market.

It initially showed some promise of bringing order to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account of financial constraints at SGI, strategic reasons at Microsoft, and general lack of industry support, it was abandoned in 1999.

Until the second generation Onyx Reality Engine machines, SGI offered access to its high performance 3D graphics subsystems through a proprietary API known as IRIS Graphics Language ( IRIS GL ).

Once inexpensive PCs began to have graphics performance close to the more expensive specialized graphical workstations which were SGI's core business, SGI shifted its focus to high performance servers for digital video and the Web.

Many SGI graphics engineers left to work at other computer graphics companies such as ATI and Nvidia, contributing to the PC 3D graphics revolution.

In 1999, in an attempt to clarify their current market position as more than a graphics company, Silicon Graphics Inc. changed its corporate identity to “ SGI ”, although its legal name was unchanged.

In April 2008, SGI re-entered the visualization market with the SGI Virtu range of visualization servers and workstations, which were re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

In 2011-01-31, the District Court entered an order that permits AMD to pursue its invalidity affirmative defense at trial and does not permit SGI to accuse AMD's Radeon R700 series of graphics products of infringement in this case.

Meanwhile DARPA's VLSI Project created several spinoff graphics products as well, notably the SGI 3130, and Silicon Graphics ' range of machines that followed.

It was not uncommon to differentiate the target market for the products, with Sun and Apollo considered to be network workstations, while the SGI machines were graphics workstations.

By this point SGI had wrapped up the entire ( small ) 3D graphics market.

Their progress with the 3D graphics on the SGI systems impressed Nintendo's Genyo Takeda, and in 1994, Nintendo bought a 49 % stake in the company, turning Rare into a Nintendo second-party developer.

While some high-end graphics workstation systems and the accessories marketed toward use with such systems, as from SGI, have always used more than 8 bits per channel, such as 12 or 16 ( 36-bit or 48-bit color ), such color depths have only worked their way into the general market more recently.

Open Inventor, originally IRIS Inventor, is a C ++ object oriented retained mode 3D graphics API designed by SGI to provide a higher layer of programming for OpenGL.

The graphics options available for the SGI Indigo² can be divided in two groups: the " pre-IMPACT " and the " MGRAS IMPACT " boards.

The IMPACT graphics was the first desktop graphics system from SGI to offer texture mapping acceleration, though only the High IMPACT and Maximum IMPACT had this capability, and came with 1 MB of texture memory as standard.

In 1992, SGI led the creation of the OpenGL architectural review board ( OpenGL ARB ), the group of companies that would maintain and expand the OpenGL specification for years to come.

In January 2006, SGI hired Dennis McKenna as its new CEO and chairman of the board of directors.

In 1989, IRCAM developed and maintained a concurrent version of Max ported to the IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation for the NeXT ( and later SGI and Linux ), called Max / FTS ( FTS standing for " Faster Than Sound ", and being analogous to a forerunner to MSP enhanced by a hardware DSP board on the computer ).

In 1999, SGI announced it would overhaul its operations ; it planned to continue introducing new MIPS processors until 2002, but its server business would include Intel ’ s processor architectures as well.

At the same time, SGI announced a new logo consisting of only the letters “ sgi ” in a proprietary font called “ SGI ”, created by branding and design consulting firm Landor Associates, in collaboration with designer Joe Stitzlein.

In mid-2005, SGI hired Alix Partners to advise it on returning to profitability and received a new line of credit.

Throughout history of Buddhism, the teachings of all branches and schools of Buddhism were conveyed through the Master-Disciple relationship, a principle which SGI presents in a new understanding-starting with replacing the traditional word Master by Mentor, a Greek-origin word meaning “ to encourage ”.

After the excommunication ( 1991 ) and the Priesthood's refusal to confer the Object of Devotion on SGI members ( unless they associated themselves with a Nichiren Shōshū temple )-many new members were forced to practice without the Gohonzon.

First described as an insignificant " gathering of the sick and poor " after World War II in early 1950s, the perception changed to " new religious movement ", which created a substantial impact in society, and with its world wide growth, described as the largest and most diverse Buddhist group :" With 12 million members in 192 countries, SGI is the world's largest Buddhist lay group and the largest, most ethnically diverse Buddhist school in America …”.”.

A joint press release in December 1997, followed by an announcement at an ARB meeting in early 1998 by SGI, announced that work on OpenGL ++ had been abandoned and SGI had partnered with Microsoft to produce a new system code-named " Fahrenheit ".

No new versions of XSG were ever released, and all of the pages related to either Fahrenheit or XSG on both the Microsoft and SGI web pages have since disappeared.

This led to the Cosmo 3D project that SGI was intending to build both Inventor and Performer ( now essentially API shims ) out of, as well as promote as a new and higher-level standardized API for future work on the SGI platform.

At the 20 – 21 August 1996 meeting of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( ARB ), SGI floated the idea of a new standardized scene graph similar to Cosmo3D but with the express intent of being based on " standard " OpenGL.

At the March 1998 ARB meeting, to everyone's surprise, SGI presented Fahrenheit, an entirely new project.

SGI said the problems were similar to those with any new building, and that it had already spent $ 300, 000 fixing things.

On September 19, 2008, SGI created a new SGI FreeB License Version 2. 0, which " now mirrors the free X11 license used by X. Org " and " meets the free and open source software community's widely accepted definition of ' free '".

The Fuel is sometimes perceived as the successor to the SGI O2, but it is not ( SGI never made a new low-end system after O2 ).

In 2006, NASA and SGI added four new Altix 4700 nodes containing 256 dual-core processors, which decreased the physical footprint and the power cost of the supercomputer.

) Since the founding of Sun and SGI in the early 1980s, no new general-purpose computer company has succeeded without building computers for which there was an existing large software base, and none of the many minisupercomputer startup companies of the 1980s eventually succeeded.

In 2000, the company decided to replace the existing computer code with a completely new design based on C ++, OpenGL and OpenInventor, in order to focus on the Windows operating system and gradually phase out the SGI hardware platform.