Avi Singh, Product Marketing Manager
ELSA Inc.
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avis@elsa.com

ELSA's OpenGL Graphics Accelerator to be Included in the UMAX TekStation

High Performance 3D Acceleration to be Delivered with AGP ELSA GLoria-XXL for new Pentium II Xeon-based UMAX Professional Workstations

Santa Clara, CA (July 1, 1998) - ELSA Inc. today announced that UMAX Data Systems Inc.'s new professional workstations - TekStation - will be powered by the ELSA GLoria-XXL^™. GLoria-XXL provides high performance 3D OpenGL^® acceleration for users working in the digital content creation and MCAD markets. The TekStation, powered with dual Pentium^® II Xeon^™ 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, upto 56 MB of memory, and the ELSA Software Advantage in high performance OpenGL, 3D Studio MAX^® and AutoCAD^® drivers. Users of applications such as 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop^®, Pro/ENGINEER^®, 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 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 customers who have adopted GLINT GMX 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."

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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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