IBM CHOOSES ATI'S FIRE GL 8800 WORKSTATION GRAPHICS BOARDS TO POWER IBM INTELLISTATION WORKSTATIONS.The FIRE GL 8800, a graphics solution ideally suited for digital designers and artists, will be offered by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) in IntelliStation E Pro and M Pro professional workstation systems. The FIRE GL 8800 is well matched to professional content creation and playback with superior application performance using OpenGL. Based on the same graphics architecture as ATI's RADEON 8500, it also fully supports Microsoft's DirectX 8.1 specification allowing developers to design a game in OpenGL and play it back using ATI's innovative TRUFORM and SMARTSHADER rendering technologies - a real advantage when image quality is of utmost importance. "The IntelliStation and Fire GL 8800 combination will enable customers to deliver superior results," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of Marketing & General Manager, Desktop Marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. "We are pleased that IBM recognizes the features and functionality of the Fire GL 8800 by introducing it into their system lineup." The FIRE GL 8800 comes standard in five IBM IntelliStation models: IntelliStation E Pro model 621453U and IntelliStation M Pro models 622915U, 622925U, 622945U and 622955U. The systems represent a variety of mid-range configurations ranging in price from $2,919 to $3,659. Standard features of the FIRE GL 8800 include 128MB of DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory and industry-leading optimized Workstation OpenGL performance, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. video playback as well as support for 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048 X 1536 pixels, digital flat panel Digital Flat Panel (DFP) is a video connector for flat panel displays. It features 20 pins and uses the PanelLink protocol. Unlike DVI, DFP never achieved widespread implementation. The connector was used by displays such as the Compaq Presario FP400, FP500 and 5204. and various configurations of multiple displays. The FIRE GL 8800 uses a 165 MHz integrated TMDS (Transition Minimized Differential Signaling) A transmission method for sending digital information from a personal computer, set-top box or other video source to a flat panel display. Developed by Silicon Image, Sunnyvale, CA (www.siliconimage. transmitter to support DVI (1) (Digital Video Interactive) An earlier compression technique that provided up to 72 minutes of full-screen video on a CD-ROM. Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research labs, Princeton, NJ, DVI never caught on. up to 1600 X 1200 pixels resolution. |
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