Editing Silicon Graphics (section)

===Re-emergence===
[[File:Googleplexsouthsidesecondangle.jpg|thumb|right|SGI headquarters on Amphitheatre Parkway, after it became the [[Googleplex]], {{Circa|2006}}]]
In mid-2005, SGI hired Alix Partners to advise it on returning to profitability and received a new line of credit. SGI announced it was postponing its scheduled annual December stockholders meeting until March 2006. It proposed a [[reverse stock split]] to deal with the de-listing from the New York Stock Exchange.

In January 2006, SGI hired Dennis McKenna as its new CEO and chairman of the board of directors. Mr. McKenna succeeded [[Robert Bishop (manager)|Robert Bishop]], who remained vice chairman of the board of directors.

On May 8, 2006, SGI announced that it had filed for [[Chapter 11]] bankruptcy protection for itself and U.S. subsidiaries as part of a plan to reduce debt by $250 million.<ref>Patrick Fitzgerald. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114708367971646497 Silicon Graphics Seeks Chapter 11 As Sales Decline] Wall Street Journal, 2006. (subscription required)</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Silicon Graphics Chapter 11 Petition|url=https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/EUOGNXA/Silicon_Graphics_Inc__nysbke-6-10977__0001.0.pdf|website=PacerMonitor|access-date=June 7, 2016}}</ref> Two days later, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court approved its first day [[Motion (legal)|motions]] and its use of a $70 million financing facility provided by a group of its bondholders. Foreign subsidiaries were unaffected.

On September 6, 2006, SGI announced the end of development for the MIPS/IRIX line and the IRIX operating system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html |title=End of General Availability for MIPS IRIX Products |access-date=May 2, 2009 |publisher=Silicon Graphics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426090853/http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html |archive-date=April 26, 2009 }}</ref> Production would end on December 29 and the last orders would be fulfilled by March 2007. Support for these products would end after December 2013.

SGI emerged from bankruptcy protection on October 17, 2006.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sgi.com/features/2006/october/growth/| title = SGI Emerges Lean, Focused and Ready to Grow| access-date = January 25, 2007| work = SGI Web site}}</ref> Its stock symbol on [[OTC Markets Group|Pink Sheets]] at that point, ''SGID'', was canceled, and new stock was issued on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ''SGIC''.<ref>{{cite press release
  |url = http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006/october/nasdaq.html
  |title = SGI Common Stock to Begin Trading on NASDAQ Under "SGIC"
  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120702114600/http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006/october/nasdaq.html
  |archive-date = July 2, 2012
  |access-date = April 27, 2018
  |date = October 23, 2006
  |publisher = Silicon Graphics
}}</ref> This new stock was distributed to the company's creditors, and the SGID common stockholders were left with worthless shares.<ref>{{cite press release|url = http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006/july/file_reorg_and_disclosure.html|title = SGI Files Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement|access-date = May 2, 2009|date = July 5, 2006|publisher = Silicon Graphics|url-status=dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081222115410/http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006/july/file_reorg_and_disclosure.html|archive-date = December 22, 2008}}</ref> At the end of that year, the company moved its headquarters from [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]] to [[Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale]].<ref>{{cite news|title=SGI hermit crabs over to Sunnyvale |publisher=Silicon Graphics|author-link=Ashlee Vance|last=Vance|first=Ashlee|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/sgi_sunnyvale/|work=[[The Register]]|date=January 12, 2007|access-date=February 26, 2008}}</ref> Its earlier North Shoreline headquarters is now occupied by the [[Computer History Museum]]; the newer Amphitheatre Parkway headquarters was sold to [[Google]] (which had already subleased and moved into the facility in 2003). Both of these locations were award-winning designs by [[Studios Architecture]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studios.com/projects/computer_history_museum_formerly_sgi/|title=Studios Architecture Computer History Museum (Formerly SGI)|website=studios.com|language=en-US|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626033732/http://studios.com/projects/computer_history_museum_formerly_sgi/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studios.com/projects/google_headquarters_formerly_sgi_north_charleston_campus/|title=Studios Architecture Googleplex|website=studios.com|language=en-US|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626014221/http://studios.com/projects/google_headquarters_formerly_sgi_north_charleston_campus/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In April 2008, SGI re-entered the visualization market with the [[SGI Virtu]] range of visualization servers and workstations, which were re-badged systems from [[BOXX Technologies]] based on Intel [[Xeon]] or [[AMD Opteron]] processors and [[Nvidia Quadro]] graphics chipsets, running [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]], [[SUSE Linux Enterprise Server]] or [[Windows Server 2003#Windows Compute Cluster Server|Windows Compute Cluster Server]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Back_to_the_Future_SGI_Returns_to_Visualization.html|title=Back to the Future: SGI Returns to Visualization|date=April 11, 2008|work=HPCwire|access-date=September 29, 2009}}</ref>