Taipei, October 20, 1997
Taipei, Taiwan - The Asian office of the Data Communications and Computer Graphics specialists ELSA is going from strength to strength. A strategic partner for collaboration has been found in the renowned company Legend Group, Inc., which is enjoying great success with its PCs industries. Legend Group is currently the largest enterprise group of China's computer industry.ELSA first introduced its 3D high-performance graphics board GLoria™-L into China, a board designed to meet the toughest demands of the visualization professionals. The GLoria-L upgrades your Intel or DEC-Alpha system to a high-end 3D workstation. These professional standard graphics boards have been optimized to guarantee the highest possible graphics performance available for today's PCs. Most 3D features are optimized with ELSA's in-house driver technology.
The ELSA GLoria-L graphics controller provides 3D resolutions at up to 1600 x 1200, full texture mapping support, a 32-bit Z-buffer and 100% OpenGL® functionality. Additional 3D APIs that are supported include HEIDI and Direct3D. Drivers are available for Windows NT® 4.0, 3.51, and Windows® 95. The ELSA 3D high-performance graphics board Gloria™ series supports 3D applications such as AutoCAD®, Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop, MicroStation 95, 3D Studio MAX, Pro/ENGINEER, I-DEAS, Softimage 3D, ALLPLAN, HiCAD, Open Inventor, SolidWorks, WorldToolKit, EDS/Unigraphics, Logocad, and more...
ELSA covers the full product range for professional graphics boards, and has worldwide partnerships with COMPAQ, Siemens, DELL, Acer and UMAX. ELSA is happy to support a strong partner for cooperation the Legend Group, a company which has made a good name for itself on the Chinese PC market. The Legend Group decided that ELSA is the partner for them to provide top-class quality and world services to the professionals in graphics and visualization in China.
Legend Group has 26 domestic branches, 21 overseas subsidiaries and 1000 sales & services agencies. It developed China's first 486, 586 and 686. ELSA will maintain close contact with Legend Group via the ELSA subsidiary in Asia.
ELSA AG is a privately-owned company based in Aachen, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara, California, and Asia. Founded in 1980, ELSA has built up a world-renowned reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications products. Technological competence, German standards of quality, path-finding products and services backed up by excellent support: these are factors which firmly place ELSA at the forefront of the market today.