[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:57:17AM +0200, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

 
> Anyway, that doesn't count for the development costs for higher-end
> numbercrunchers like the (now) R16k or R18k lines. If (when?) NSK moves
> away from MIPS, SGI will be just like Sun is now and how DEC was before
> - developing new (own) processors and let someone else manufacture them.

I think the fear is that SGI will also stop developing the CPUs.

Also, isn't MIPS fairly independent anyway?

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