SGI was sabotaged by obvious corporate espionage by Microsoft -- the executive that urged the abandonment of SGI's generations-ahead GPU platform and MIPS for I

SGI was sabotaged by obvious corporate espionage by Microsoft -- the executive that urged the abandonment of SGI's generations-ahead GPU platform and MIPS for Intel gear had done the same thing to HP prior, and left for a long sinecure at Microsoft after he was done.