California-based SGI hopes to strengthen its market position by releasing a line of new products related to visual area networking.
The products - including a visual workstation, graphics infrastructure software and desktop systems - target high-end users.
'Every three years or so, SGI fundamentally changes the world of computer graphics,' said Bob Bishop, chairman and chief executive of SGI. 'Now at our 20th anniversary, the time has come again.'
The company, also known as Silicon Graphics, was set up in 1982 and is a provider of high-performance computing, data management and visualisation products.
It is also famous in the performance market for the hardware used to create computer animations and special effects for movies, such as Cats & Dogs and The Lord of the Rings.
Its market has recently been challenged by industry giants, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, especially in the workstation and server arenas.