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Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
News Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world Monsters and Toy Story, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up. As part of the switch to Intel for rendering, Pixar has ported its Renderman...
[February 10, 2003, 8:56]
News Burst: Pixar surprises analysts
News Pixar Animation Studios -- Steve Jobs' other company - beat Wall Street estimates Thursday with second quarter earnings of $2.1m (£1.28m), or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $3.8m (£2.31m).
[July 24, 1998, 10:43]
Pixar RenderMan Pro Server
Downloads Leading digital effects houses and computer graphics specialists use Pixar’s RenderMan because it is the highest quality renderer available anywhere and has been production tested through successful use in feature films for over ten years.
[October 18, 2004, 8:00]
Steve Jobs: Happy to go home to Pixar
News Jobs had received 1.5m shares in the struggling computer manufacturer in part payment for NeXt Software, which Apple acquired in January. I pretty much had given up hope that the Apple board was going to do anything" Jobs said, and added: "I didn't...
[August 12, 1997, 15:58]
US Report: Synthespians have 'A Bug's Life'
News The evolution of "synthespians" -- computer-generated film characters -- has come a long way even in the three years since Pixar Animation Studios released its first full-length computer-animated film "Toy Story.
[November 26, 1998, 9:35]
AMD hopes to rack up server victory
News Besides displacing Sun Microsystems servers at Pixar, RackSaver has installed large server systems at graphics chip designer Nvidia, energy company Conoco, and Industrial Light and Magic, the effects studio behind the "Star Wars" films.
[March 5, 2003, 14:07]
LinuxWorld: Big Blue evangelises Linux
News Pixar was the lone company of the four that didn't have a mainframe story to tell. Bean, digital animation studio Pixar, department store chain Boscov's and financial services giant Salomon Smith Barney.
[January 31, 2002, 16:58]
Consumers thrive as B2B trembles
News Game software publisher Electronic Arts and computer animation specialist Pixar Animation Studios have seen their market capitalisations rise by more than a third. The latest boost comes from Pixar, which on Thursday reported better-than-expected...
[August 13, 2001, 13:33]
Jobs: The best man for the job
News In addition to Apple, Jobs has also been in charge of Pixar, the animated film company that has produced hits such as "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" and "A Bug's Life". I get to come to work every day and work with the best people at Apple and at Pixar...
[January 6, 2000, 15:06]
Technology: Levelling Hollywood's playing field
News Pixar "has many years of experience on us, but we want to play on that field," said Buckley Collum, "Valiant" co-producer and Vanguard co-founder. Pixar has used blade server technology from RackSaver, while IBM xSeries servers are also common.
[August 16, 2005, 13:45]
Jobs becomes permanent Apple CEO
News I hope that we've been able to convince the shareholders at Apple and at Pixar that maybe we can pull this dual CEO thing off," Jobs said. The move puts Jobs in an unprecedented position: simultaneously piloting two major tech companies that he...
[January 6, 2000, 8:15]
IBM unifies Unix, Intel workstation lines
News IBM has made some progress, luring Pixar Animation Studios for animation work once done on SGI machines. The Pixar deal is important to IBM in part because the customer is using Linux, a clone of Unix that's growing from a hobbyist curiosity into a...
[February 5, 2002, 10:57]
A Year Ago: Jobs - The best man for the job
News In addition to Apple, Jobs has also been in charge of Pixar, the animated film company that has produced hits such as "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" and "A Bug's Life". I get to come to work every day and work with the best people at Apple and at Pixar...
[January 6, 2001, 6:07]
iCon review
Reviews The only dramatic new development has been Apple's move into digital music with iTunes and the iPod, and that (along with fights between Disney and Pixar) occupies only the last 50 pages of the book. Instead, iCon covers the life of Steve Jobs...
[June 29, 2005, 11:45]
Sun releases UK blade prices, defends SPARC
News Although Sun lost a high-profile customer, as Pixar has switched from SPARC to Intel, there was still a need for SPARC, said Andrews. A launch demonstration of showed Sun's price-performance leadership in graphical visualisation, he said, while...
[February 11, 2003, 12:56]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Pixar's ambitions to be leading digital studio are challenge -- Business Week Pixar's days as the only computerized show in town are over. Pixar's next film, A Bug's Life has computer generated characters will "Up to 3,900 potential movements, vs...
[November 17, 1998, 16:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Pixar made Toy Story and A Bug's Life, and is the top computer animation company on the planet. This time, Sun pulls it off: we're all going to Pixar Animations! What really hit home was Pixar's in-house training programme: in a company with plenty...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Shareholders take stock of Apple
News One investor asked Jobs to respond to worries that his new position on Disney's board of directors, following that company's acquisition of Pixar Animation Studio, would detract from his attention to Apple.
[April 28, 2006, 11:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Pixar made Toy Story and A Bug's Life, and is the top computer animation company on the planet. This time, Sun pulls it off: we're all going to Pixar Animations! What really hit home was Pixar's in-house training programme: in a company with plenty...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Disney to deliver content with Microsoft
News News of the alliance comes just a few days after one of Microsoft's biggest rivals in the technology world, Apple Computer and Pixar chief executive officer Steve Jobs, openly broke with Disney after months of contract negations.
[February 9, 2004, 11:25]
