ELSA Announces Hewlett-Packard Will OEM the GLoria Synergy

HP Kayak XW PC workstations will now be equipped with the highly acclaimed 2D/3D graphics board

April 28, 1998 -- ELSA today announced that the ELSA GLoria Synergy^™ will be integrated in the newest version of the HP Kayak XW PC Workstations.

HP Kayak XW PC Workstations are high-performance PCs optimized for Microsoft^® Windows NT^®. With the ELSA GLoria Synergy, these machines offer an extremely cost-effective price/performance solution, providing outstanding graphics performance for professional 2D CAD and 3D visualization applications. These include solutions from Autodesk^®, Kinetix^®, Bentley, PTC, SDRC, EDS Unigraphics and SolidWorks.^™

The ELSA GLoria Synergy is equipped with an AGP bus, the PERMEDIA 2^™ processor from 3Dlabs^®, and 8 MB SGRAM. The 230-MHz pixel clock powers this board to resolutions of 1920 x 1200 in HighColor. It can be operated in multi-screen mode and supports 16:10 wide-screen monitors. The ELSA GLoria Synergy provides bilinear texture mapping in hardware and hardware accelerated OpenGL^®, HEIDI^™ and Direct3D^™. To date, the GLoria Synergy has won seven international awards, recommendations and citations in Germany, Great Britain, the USA and Taiwan.

With the Kayak XW PC workstations, HP customers can benefit from the ELSA Software Advantage for Autodesk and Kinetix applications. The new drivers, ELSA POWERdraft for hardware acceleration of AutoCAD^® R13 and R14 as well as ELSA MAXtreme for 3D Studio MAX 2.0, further boost the already excellent graphics performance with these CAD and visualization applications.

The new HP Kayak XW PC Workstation featuring ELSA GLoria Synergy graphics, a 333 MHz Pentium II processor, 64MB SDRAM and 4.5GB/10,000rpm hard disk is available, with an estimated US street price of $3,655.

Quotes

"Hewlett-Packard demands extremely high standards of its suppliers. Product quality, performance, time to market, plus an excellent price/performance relationship are just as important as continual product development and technical support. With the HP design win, we have made an important step forward in our strategy for international expansion," stated Theo Beisch, CEO of ELSA.

"Hewlett-Packard has integrated GLoria Synergy graphics to facilitate customers migrating from 2D to 3D," said Jean-Charles Miard, General Manager for HP Kayak PC Workstations. "Kayak XW PC Workstations with GLoria Synergy graphics provide exceptional customer value. GLoria Synergy is a very attractive expansion of our array of Kayak XW graphics options."


About the ELSA GLoria Synergy

ELSA GLoria Synergy, is setting new standards in professional 2D/3D graphics acceleration. Now it’s possible to reach high-performance productivity in conventional 2D CAD and 3D visualization for an outstanding price. With the ELSA Software Advantage, GLoria Synergy provides 100% OpenGL hardware acceleration and improved performance to update complex and detailed displays with lightning fast speed.

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 and videoconferencing product family.

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