Silicon Graphics

former American company
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Silicon Graphics

Summary

Silicon Graphics is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,351 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Silicon Graphics is in the country of United States[3].
  • Silicon Graphics's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Silicon Graphics's instance of is recorded as enterprise[5].
  • Silicon Graphics's founder is recorded as James H. Clark[6].
  • Silicon Graphics's founder is recorded as Charles Kuta[7].
  • Silicon Graphics's founder is recorded as Kurt Akeley[8].
  • Silicon Graphics's founder is recorded as David J. Brown[9].
  • Silicon Graphics's founder is recorded as Abbey Silverstone[10].
  • Silicon Graphics's headquarters location is recorded as Sunnyvale[11].
  • Silicon Graphics's headquarters location is recorded as Mountain View[12].
  • Silicon Graphics's child organization or unit is recorded as Silicon Graphics International (Canada)[13].
  • Silicon Graphics's Commons category is recorded as Silicon Graphics[14].
  • Silicon Graphics's industry is recorded as computer hardware industry[15].
  • November 9, 1981 marks the founding of Silicon Graphics[16].
  • Silicon Graphics was dissolved in May 2009[17].
  • Silicon Graphics's location of formation is recorded as California[18].
  • Silicon Graphics's official website is recorded as http://www.sgi.com/[19].
  • Silicon Graphics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Silicon Graphics[20].
  • Silicon Graphics's Commons gallery is recorded as SGI[21].
  • Silicon Graphics's product or material produced is recorded as software[22].
  • Silicon Graphics's product or material produced is recorded as workstation[23].
  • Silicon Graphics's product or material produced is recorded as server computer[24].
  • Silicon Graphics's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[25].
  • Silicon Graphics's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/sgi[26].
  • Silicon Graphics's different from is recorded as Silicon Graphics International[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300SE1VOQWTQPPS77[28]

  • Registered legal name: Silicon Graphics International Corp.[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-12-13[35]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[36]

  • LEI next renewal: 2014-12-17[37]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[38]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[39]

  • Authority entity ID: 3601107[40]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[41]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Began / founded: 1982[42]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2009-05[43]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 603dc7ac-4be6-447c-9ef7-b29b8ab93237[44]

Body

Founding

Founders include James H. Clark[6], Charles Kuta[7], Kurt Akeley[8], David J. Brown[9], and Abbey Silverstone[10]. November 9, 1981 marks the founding of Silicon Graphics[16]. Its location of formation is recorded as California[18].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Sunnyvale[11], a big city[45], in United States[46] and Mountain View[12], a city of California[47], in United States[48]. Silicon Graphics's child organization or unit is recorded as Silicon Graphics International (Canada)[13].

Industry

Silicon Graphics's industry is recorded as computer hardware industry[15].

Ownership

Products include software[22], workstation[23], and server computer[24].

Dissolution

Silicon Graphics was dissolved in May 2009[17].

Why It Matters

Silicon Graphics ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,351 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  16. [43] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  17. [44] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · MsMorale · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14912 → Silicon_Graphics
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14912]]: Silicon_Graphics, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/274783|batch #274783]]"
  2. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Location of formation → California
    Country → United States
    Different from → Silicon Graphics International
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: 92BE-96D0-CC41-33CD-E460, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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