ELSA's OpenGL Graphics Accelerator to be Included in the UMAX TekStation.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 1998-- High Performance 3D Acceleration to be Delivered with AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. ELSA GLoria-XXL for new Pentium II The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. Xeon-based UMAX Professional Workstations ELSA Inc. today announced that UMAX Data Systems Inc.'s new professional workstations - TekStation will be powered by the ELSA GLoria(TM)-XXL. GLoria-XXL provides high performance 3D OpenGL(R) acceleration for users working in the digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. and MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design markets. The TekStation, powered with dual Pentium(R) II Xeon(TM) processors, in combination with the ELSA GLoria-XXL will provide creative and mechanical professionals with a turnkey solution for powerful 3D performance. ELSA GLoria-XXL is the ideal solution for customers with demanding 3D geometry, texture, and resolution requirements. It delivers 3D OpenGL in resolutions of up to 1920 x 1200 in high color, full geometry acceleration in hardware, stereo output, up to 56 MB of memory, and the ELSA Software Advantage in high performance OpenGL, 3D Studio MAX(R) and AutoCAD(R) drivers. Users of applications such as 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop(R), Pro/ENGINEER(R), Bentley MicroStation, SolidWorks, SOFTIMAGE 3D among others can take advantage of the GLoria-XXL's optimized support for OpenGL and customized drivers. Supporting 3.3 million polygons per second, the ELSA GLoria-XXL is the price/performance leader in high-end OpenGL acceleration. "ELSA is pleased to once again partner with a high performance workstation manufacturer to offer our professional customers the highest performance," said Thomas Neubert, vice president of sales and marketing at ELSA Inc. "The ELSA GLoria-XXL with the UMAX TekStation will deliver the performance users demand." "We chose ELSA GLoria-XXL as the graphic accelerator for our new dual Pentium-II Xeon workstation, the UMAX TekStation, because we need the best total system performance," said Alpha Tsai, AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. of system marketing at UMAX Data Systems, Inc. "We believe that ELSA helps us in the ability to offer our customers off the shelf high-performance products." "3Dlabs welcomes the addition of UMAX to the growing list of system OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers who have adopted GLINT GMX GMX Global Message Exchange technology," said Neil Trevett, vice president of marketing at 3Dlabs. "The combination of ELSA's experience in developing customized software drivers for high-end applications and the compelling feature set of GLINT GMX make the GLoria-XXL an outstanding choice of graphics acceleration for professional users." ELSA Information ELSA Inc. is a subsidiary of ELSA AG, a stock company based in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1980, ELSA has built a world-class reputation in high-performance 2D and 3D graphics solutions in addition to a wide-ranging ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and videoconferencing product family. Note to editors: The ELSA logo is a registered trademark of ELSA AG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: ELSA Inc., Santa Clara Avi Singh, 408/919-9100 ext. 140 800/272-ELSA ext. 140 avis@elsa.com http://www.elsa.com |
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