Silicon Graphics Inc has won Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp to its concept of interactive multimedia services, and the two are to develop hardware and software to provide video on demand, home shopping, long-distance education and remote medical consultations. Silicon Graphics won out because of its overwhelming strength in processing three-dimensional graphics. The agreement will […]
Silicon Graphics Inc has won Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp to its concept of interactive multimedia services, and the two are to develop hardware and software to provide video on demand, home shopping, long-distance education and remote medical consultations. Silicon Graphics won out because of its overwhelming strength in processing three-dimensional graphics. The agreement will combine the Japanese phone company’s digital network technology with Silicon Graphics’s video servers, three-dimensional graphics and television set-top decoder box ideas.
