[today in history] June 29: SGI and MIPS merged; Microsoft acquires PowerPoint developer; News corporation sells MySpace

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It's today 2022 year 6 month 29 Japan , stay 2008 Years of today ,CNNIC Release 《 The first 22 The second statistical report on the development of Internet in China 》, By 2008 year 6 End of month , The number of Internet users in China has reached 2.53 Billion , For the first time, it surpassed the United States by a large margin to become the first in the world . however , For all that , At that time, the Internet penetration rate in China was only 19.1%, lower than 21.1% The global average of . besides , There is also a very interesting data ： Among netizens at that time 42.3％ Own a personal blog or web page , And the renewal rate is close to half in half a year .

Review the history of science and Technology ,6 month 29 On this day, there were three acquisitions that had a significant impact on the industry , Let's start from the last century 80 s , Take a look at the changes that these business mergers and acquisitions in the past have brought to today's society .

1987 year 6 month 29 Japan ： Microsoft acquired PowerPoint Developers Forethought

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1983 end of the year ,Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman founded Forethought company , To develop various object-oriented application software .1984 year , They hired Robert, a doctor of computer science, with a large proportion of the company's shares · Gaskins （Robert Gaskins）, And Gaskins joined the company , And software developers Dennis Austin Led a team called Presenter The development of the program , Later they renamed it PowerPoint. Also in 1984 year ,Forethought Got the release name Nutshell Based on the DOS Of the application Macintosh Rights of the version . They will PowerPoint Of Mac The version is named FileMaker, And quickly achieved great success .

PowerPoint 1.0 On 1987 Years for Apple Macintosh Release . Same year 6 month 29 Japan , Microsoft Corporation 1400 Ten thousand dollars for Forethought and PowerPoint.1990 year 5 month , Microsoft produced PowerPoint One of the first Windows 3.0 edition . since 1990 Since then ,PowerPoint Has always been a Microsoft Office The standard part of the application suite ,Microsoft PowerPoint Today, it is also the most commonly used and popular demo suite , Have 95% Market share .

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1992 year 6 month 29 Japan ：Silicon Graphics and MIPS Merge

1984 year , John, a professor at Stanford University · Hennessy and his team founded MIPS Computer Systems Inc . These researchers participated in a project called MIPS Project , Other key founders include former Motorola technologists Skip Stritter And the former IBM Of John Moussouris; And what these people study MIPS, Full name Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages, It's a way to take a reduced instruction set （RISC） The instruction set architecture of （ISA）, Now it is widely used in many electronic products 、 Network devices 、 Personal entertainment equipment and commercial equipment .

MIPS The first version of the architecture was created by MIPS Computer systems company for its R2000 Microprocessor designed , This is the first one MIPS The implementation of the .MIPS and R2000 It's all in 1985 Launched together in . When MIPS II launched ,MIPS Renamed MIPS I, To distinguish it from the new version . One of the earliest MIPS The architecture is 32 position , The latest version has become 64 position . In some universities and technical schools, computer architecture courses , Students usually learn MIPS framework ; This architecture greatly influenced the later reduced instruction set architecture , Such as Alpha.

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1986 year ,Cadnetix、Prime Computer and Silicon Graphics（SGI） Wait for the company to notice MIPS Design of computer system , Discover the potential business opportunities ;1989 year 12 month ,MIPS An IPO . That year , Digital Equipment Corporation（DEC） Also released based on MIPS Design Of Unix The workstation . With the expansion of business ,MIPS Computer systems companies find themselves unable to compete with those big companies in the computer market , therefore , To ensure that future generations MIPS Supply of microprocessors ,SGI On 1992 year 6 month 29 Day to day 3.33 M & A of the company for us $billion , And changed its name to MIPS Technologies.

stay 1990 The mid - , Not embedded MIPS The main uses of microprocessors are SGI Graphics workstation .1998 year ,SGI Decided to give up MIPS, to turn to IA-64 Architecture development . And those who have accumulated business experience MIPS The company also chooses to start from SGI Split it out , Public listing of shares on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange , Refocus on the embedded market .2007 year 8 month 16 Japan ,MIPS Company announcement , The Godson CPU of the Institute of computing technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences obtained its processor IP All patents and buses of 、 Instruction set authorization .2012 year 11 month 5 Japan ,MIPS Company announcement , I want to AST sell 498 After patents , By Imagination Technologies Mergers and acquisitions .

Imagination Accelerated roll out MIPS The pace of the processor core ,MIPS The company seems to be back together with SGI The days when the company is popular and spicy ; However , Not for long ,2017 year 4 month ,Imagination Apple, their biggest customer, abandoned them ,MIPS and Imagination At this point, we are in a desperate situation .Imagination Finally found Canyon Bridge company , Sell yourself ; and MIPS You need to price it separately , With a final 6500 It was sold separately for $million Tallwood Venture Capital, until 2018 By the WaveComputing Acquisition .

MIPS The history of is full of twists and turns , Until recent years, it has been on the cusp of the war in the semiconductor industry .2021 year 3 month ,WaveComputing Declare a stop MIPS Architecture development . The company has joined RISC-V The foundation , Future processor designs will be based on RISC-V framework ;MIPS, The first and most important commercial microprocessor company , Choice and RISC-V Together “ Unite Liu against Cao ”, Together to resist what is in the limelight ARM.RISC-V And the oldest MIPS Different , It is still in its infancy , Unstable foundation ; You are right about RISC-V and MIPS To understand how much ？ Do you know which domestic or even open source chips you have used ？ Welcome to vote , Share your insights in the comments section .

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2011 year 6 month 29 Japan ： News Corp. sells Myspace

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Myspace It's a social networking service , Provide interpersonal interaction 、 User defined social networking functions and personal file pages 、 Blog 、 group 、 Photo 、 Share and store music and videos ; besides ,Myspace It also provides internal search engine and internal e-mail system . The website is headquartered in Santa Monica, California , Its parent company is headquartered in New York City .Myspace Originally in 2003 year 7 Month begins , By Tom · Anderson （Tom Anderson, Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles ）、 Chris, the current president and CEO · Dwolfi （Chris DeWolfe, Alumni of the University of Washington and the University of Southern California ）, And a small team of programmers .

according to Alexa Internet company survey ,Myspace It was once the fourth most popular English website in the world , And on websites in all languages , Once ranked sixth in popularity , It is also the third most popular website in the United States , For many weeks Myspace All of them are ranked first .Myspace The services offered are more popular than other small websites , Of all social networking sites visited ,Myspace Nearly 80%. In English speaking countries ,Myspace It has more and more influence in modern popular culture . The company has 300 Employees .

2005 year , News Corporation （News Corporation） Mergers and acquisitions Myspace,Myspace There is no independent announcement of revenue and profit , It is merged into the total revenue of News Corporation . stay 2006 year 8 month 9 Japan , The first 100 million accounts are Myspace establish [, According to the news, in 2006 year 9 month 6 The number of accounts on this website is 160million on the th ],Myspace It means an increase of about per day 23 Million new accounts , however Myspace The number of users is declining . And then , The website launched new.myspace.com, When entering myspace.com when , You will be prompted to select a version .2011 year 6 month 29 Japan , News Corporation will Myspace Sell to Specific Media, The latter in 2016 In, it became a subsidiary of time company .

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