June 30, 1998 - ELSA,
Inc., the US subsidiary of the German computer graphics and data
communications specialist ELSA, today announced that UMAX Data
Systems Inc. new professional workstations - TekStation - will
be powered by the ELSA GLoria-XXL. GLoria-XXL will
provide high performance 3D OpenGL acceleration for users working
in the digital content creation and MCAD market. The TekStation,
powered with dual Pentium II Xeon processors, in combination with
the ELSA GLoria-XXL will provide mechanical and creative
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 OpenGL 3D in resolutions of up to 1920 x 1080 in TrrueColor, full geometry acceleration in hardware, stereo graphics output, up to 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 among others can take advantage of the GLoriaXXL's optimized support for OpenGL and customized drivers. Providing 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 in providing our professional customers the highest performance," said Thomas Neubert, vice president of sales and marketing at ELSA Inc. "The ELSA GLoriaXXL with the UMAX TekStation will deliver the performance users require."
"We choose ELSA GLoria series
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."
ELSA AG is a stock company based in Aachen, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara (California), Taipei (Taiwan), and Tokyo (Japan). Founded in 1980, ELSA has built up a world-class reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications products. Technological competence, German standards of quality, leading-edge products and services backed up by excellent support: these are factors which firmly place ELSA at the forefront of the market today.
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