ELSA Brings Revolutionary 3Dlabs Chip Technology Into Play with the WINNER and GLoria Graphics Boards

PERMEDIA^®2 with the ELSA WINNER 2000/Office and ELSA GLoria Synergy Boards

San Jose, CA - June 17, 1997 - ELSA Inc. today announced their support of the revolutionary PERMEDIA^®2 high-performance graphics chip from 3Dlabs, the graphics specialist. The graphics performance of the PERMEDIA chip, currently equipping the ELSA GLoria-S, will be further improved as of fall 1997 with the introduction of the PERMEDIA 2. The PERMEDIA 2 chip provides compelling 2D and 3D graphics performance with a fully-integrated GLINT^® Delta geometry processor for accelerating 3D transformations, a high-performance 230 MHz RAMDAC, quality video playback, and a VGA adapter for high-quality graphics PCs.

The 2D/3D graphics engine of the PERMEDIA 2 graphics chip supports the important Windows^® 95 Direct3D standard and the professional interface OpenGL^®, as used on Windows NT^® based platforms. The PERMEDIA 2 graphics chip is compatible not only with the PCI bus, but also with the advanced AGP bus and offers outstanding display speeds for 2D and 3D graphics.

The ELSA WINNER 2000/Office and ELSA GLoria Synergy graphics boards will be available in Q3 of '97 and will meet the demands for sophisticated PC-based applications across a wide spectrum.

The ELSA WINNER 2000/Office will significantly raise the performance standard for graphics in the commercial desktop market. Especially relevant is the excellent 2D performance for word processing and spreadsheet programs, the integrated video functions for quality full-screen MPEG playback, and the high-speed texture-mapping functions.

Application of the ELSA GLoria Synergy graphics board will mainly be in the CAD and professional graphics market. The GLoria Synergy is the ideal graphics solution for OpenGL-based 3D applications, but with the inclusion of ELSA's special CAD drivers and utilities such as POWERdraft and ELSAview 3D, also for mainstream CAD applications. POWERdraft is still the fastest display list driver and ELSAview 3D, a new developed 3D-viewer, show ELSA's dedication to the professional CAD market.

Company Information:

ELSA Inc. is a subsidiary of ELSA AG, a 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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