Although former minisupercomputer maker Elxsi Corp disappeared from radar screens a year or three back, its Tata Elxsi Ltd former joint venture with the giant Indian conglomerate J R Tata Sons & Co Pte Ltd of Bombay is still extant, and has just announced a joint venture with Mountain View, California-based Silicon Graphics Inc to expand their collaboration for the Indian market. Silicon Graphics will but a 15% equity stake in Tata Elxsi on undisclosed terms and will license it to manufacture more of its RISC-based servers and graphics workstations in India. Tata Elxsi, based in the electronics boom town of Bangalore, Karnataka, is already manufacturing compute servers using technology from Silicon Graphics.
