Cheaper hardware, faster CPUs, open OS platform. In the end SGI tried to enter the Windows NT market with its own system that had a unique GPU with unified mem

Cheaper hardware, faster CPUs, open OS platform. In the end SGI tried to enter the Windows NT market with its own system that had a unique GPU with unified memory and also used SGI's own firmware instead of a PC BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation Despite the GPU, it wasn't competitive with cheaper, more standard x86 hardware.