Editing Pyramid Technology (section)

==History==
Pyramid Technology was formed in 1981 by a number of ex-[[Hewlett-Packard]] employees, who were interested in building first-rate minicomputers based on [[RISC]] designs.

Pyramid licensed its multiprocessor bus technology to [[Fujitsu]]/[[International Computers Limited|ICL]] in 1993, also entering into a marketing partnership in certain markets that would see ICL sell Pyramid server products and offer integration services with ICL's existing [[mainframe]] products. Such sales arrangements were to continue into 1994, by which time ICL was to have implemented Pyramid's technology in its own [[SPARC]] products, in contrast with the [[MIPS architecture]] of existing Pyramid systems.<ref name="computerworld19930215_pyramid">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/computerworld277unse/page/73/mode/1up | title=Pyramid builds partnerships with ICL units | magazine=Computerworld | last1=Halper | first1=Mark | date=15 February 1993 | access-date=1 June 2024 | pages=73 |volume=27 |issue=7}}</ref>

In March 1995, Pyramid was bought by [[Siemens AG]] and merged into their Siemens Computer Systems US unit.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/10/business/company-news-siemens-is-in-talks-to-buy-pyramid-technology.html| title=COMPANY NEWS; SIEMENS IS IN TALKS TO BUY PYRAMID TECHNOLOGY |date=January 10, 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Bloomberg News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/24/business/company-news-siemens-agrees-to-purchase-pyramid-technology.html |title=COMPANY NEWS; SIEMENS AGREES TO PURCHASE PYRAMID TECHNOLOGY |date=January 24, 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Bloomberg News}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmDfSIoLBLMC&dq=SIEMENS+BUYs+PYRAMID+TECHNOLOGY&pg=PT29 |title=Siemens/Pyramid seek to raise profile|first= Michael |last=Goldberg |magazine=Computerworld |date=12 February 1996 |page=31 |volume=30 |issue=7 |quote=The acquisition last March}}</ref> In 1998, this unit was split, with the services side of the operation becoming [[Wincor Nixdorf]]. In 1999 Siemens and [[Fujitsu]] merged their computer operations to form [[Fujitsu Siemens Computers]], and finally [[Amdahl Corporation|Amdahl]] was added to the mix in 2000.