[1][3][4][5] The company, which occupied a 46,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Oregon Graduate Center,[6] raised $36 million in start-up capital within three years of its foundation.

[9] Initial yields of the R6000 were very poor, leading to parts shortages for MIPS Computer Systems; the latter company attributed their first quarterly loss in October 1990 to BIT.

[11] Under its new president Fred Hanson, BIT had its first profitable year in 1991,[11] reaching peak revenues of $20 million.

Revenues dropped the following year to about $10 million, however, after it had lost four of its largest customers, including MIPS, Floating Point, and Control Data.

[12] The company eventually entered the telecommunications market with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) devices and Ethernet switches.