http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1995/May/ron_bernal.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
"Silicon Graphics entered the supercomputing market with a commitment to create an entirely new paradigm. As the leader of that effort, Ron has delivered on that promise -- driving our server business to more than 100 percent growth for two consecutive years," said Tom Jermoluk, president and chief operating officer, Silicon Graphics. "As MIPS continues to break new ground in processor performance and enters the emerging interactive consumer microprocessor market, Ron is just the person to lead that charge."
For five years, Bernal has been a leader at Silicon Graphics, most recently as vice president and general manager of the Supercomputing Systems Division. Prior to joining the company, he was co-founder of Edge Computer, developer of 68000 microprocessors and multiprocessing systems, and played a key research and development role at General Electric Corp. and Honeywell's joint development center. Bernal has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Arizona State.
During the last 12 months, MIPS Technologies has achieved a number of important milestones, including delivering the R8000 and R10000 microprocessor designs, and creating the MIPS Magic Carpet media architecture. The first superscalar implementation of the MIPS architecture, the R8000 is the world's fastest supercomputing microprocessor and offers a record-setting SPECfp92 of 310. The R10000, the company's next-generation MIPS RISC microprocessor design, is a single-chip superscalar 64-bit microprocessor that boasts an estimated SPECint92 performance of more than 300 and SPECfp92 of more than 600. Finally, today marks the debut of the MIPS Magic Carpet media architecture, a new architecture designed for interactive digital consumer products. MIPS Magic Carpet will enable a new generation of applications that will yield exciting new products for consumers.
"MIPS' recent successes -- culminating with the MIPS Magic Carpet introduction -- realize the vision we've had since we merged: to bring the best of Silicon Graphics and MIPS technology in a processor package to power exciting new digital media applications," added Jermoluk. "Our commitment to the Open RISC business model has enabled us to work with the best in the business, supplying them with the world's most advanced RISC processor technology."
MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and supplies the world's most advanced RISC microprocessor technology. The company tests, certifies and licenses its processor technology to its semiconductor partners which provide processors for the computer system, emerging consumer and embedded control markets. MIPS microprocessors power systems from a number of computer industry leaders, including Siemens Nixdorf AG, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Sony Corporation, Tandem Computers Incorporated, NEC Technologies, Inc., NeTpower Inc. and Tektronix, Inc. MIPS RISC architecture components are available from world-class semiconductor companies, such as Integrated Device Technology, Inc., LSI Logic Corporation, NEC Corporation, NKK Corporation, Philips Semiconductor, Siemens AG and Toshiba Corporation. MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. and is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
MIPS is a registered trademark, and R8000, R10000 and Magic Carpet are trademarks, of MIPS Technologies, Inc. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
